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This paper proposes an efficient implementation for a continuous terminal algorithm (CTA). Although CTA is a continuous version of the famous twisting algorithm (TA), the conventional implementations of this CTA still suffer from…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Xiaogang Xiong , Wei Chen , Guohua Jiao , Shanhai Jin , Shyam Kamal

We study the problem of remote state estimation, in the presence of an eavesdropper. An authorized user estimates the state of a linear plant, based on the data received from a sensor, while the data may also be intercepted by the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we propose a securely precoded OFDM (SP-OFDM) system for efficient and reliable transmission under disguised jamming, where the jammer intentionally misleads the receiver by mimicking the characteristics of the authorized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Yuan Liang , Jian Ren , Tongtong Li

We consider a Gaussian MISO wiretap channel, where a multi-antenna source communicates with a single-antenna destination in the presence of a single-antenna eavesdropper. The communication is assisted by multi-antenna helpers that act as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Shuangyu Luo , Jiangyuan Li , Athina Petropulu

Non-coherent over-the-air (NCOTA) computation enables low-latency and bandwidth-efficient decentralized optimization by exploiting the average energy superposition property of wireless channels. It has recently been proposed as a powerful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Nicolò Michelusi

Over-the-air computation (OAC) enables low-latency aggregation over multiple-access channels (MACs) by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless medium to compute functions efficiently in distributed networks. A critical but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Saeed Razavikia , Deniz Gündüz , Carlo Fischione

This work studies the achievable secure rate per source-destination pair in wireless networks. First, a path loss model is considered, where the legitimate and eavesdropper nodes are assumed to be placed according to Poisson point processes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-13 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , C. Emre Koksal , Hesham El Gamal

6G mobile networks aim to realize ubiquitous intelligence at the network edge via distributed learning, sensing, and data analytics. Their common operation is to aggregate high-dimensional data, which causes a communication bottleneck that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Liu , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

Secure data compression in the presence of side information at both a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper is explored. A noise-free, limited rate link between the source and the receiver, whose output can be perfectly observed by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , H. Vincent Poor

A simple approximation for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) over generalized-K fading channels is developed. This approximation becomes tighter as the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the wiretap channel decreases. Based on this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Hui Zhao , Yuanwei Liu , Ahemd Sultan-Salem , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We study function computation over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC), where multiple transmitters aim at computing a function of their values at a common receiver. To this end, we propose a novel coded-modulation framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Saeed Razavikia , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Carlo Fischione

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an efficient approach that can improve spectrum utilization and support massive connectivity for next-generation wireless networks. However, over a wireless channel, the superimposed NOMA signals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Lu Lv , Hai Jiang , Zhiguo Ding , Qiang Ye , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

This paper proposes a generic approach for providing enhanced security to communication systems which encode their data for reliability before encrypting it through a stream cipher for security. We call this counter-intuitive technique the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Frederique Oggier , Miodrag J. Mihaljevic

We consider a sensor-receiver pair communicating over a wireless channel in the presence of a jammer who may launch a denial-of-service attack. We formulate a zero-sum game between a coordinator that jointly designs the transmission and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

We propose a secure transmission scheme for a relay wiretap channel, where a source communicates with a destination via a decode-and-forward relay in the presence of spatially random-distributed eavesdroppers. We assume that the source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chenxi Liu , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Robert Malaney

We introduce a new approach to computation on encrypted data -- Encrypted Operator Computing (EOC) -- as an alternative to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Given a plaintext vector $|{x}\rangle$, $x\in \{0,1\}^n$, and a function $F(x)$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Claudio Chamon , Jonathan Jakes-Schauer , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Andrei E. Ruckenstein

We present a distributed average consensus protocol that preserves the privacy of agents' inputs. Unlike the differential privacy mechanisms, the presented protocol does not affect the accuracy of the output. It is shown that the protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

Much research has been conducted to securely outsource multiple parties' data aggregation to an untrusted aggregator without disclosing each individual's data, or to enable multiple parties to jointly aggregate their data while preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Taeho Jung , XuFei Mao , Xiang-Yang Li , Shaojie Tang , Wei Gong , Lan Zhang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a well-known technique by which several wireless devices transmit by analog amplitude modulation to achieve a sum of their transmit signals at a common receiver. The underlying physical principle is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Saeed Razavikia , José Mairton Barros Da Silva Júnior , Carlo Fischione

In this paper, we design the first computationally efficient codes for simultaneously reliable and covert communication over Binary Symmetric Channels (BSCs). Our setting is as follows: a transmitter Alice wishes to potentially reliably…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi