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Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

While age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a metric characterizing the fresh-ness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications, most previous studies on AoI have been theoretical. In this chapter,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elif Uysal , Onur Kaya , Sajjad Baghaee , Hasan Burhan Beytur

In this paper, the secure transmission of information over an ergodic fading channel is investigated in the presence of statistical quality of service (QoS) constraints. We employ effective capacity, which provides the maximum constant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-07 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

In wiretap model of secure communication the goal is to provide (asymptotic) perfect secrecy and reliable communication over a noisy channel that is eavesdropped by an adversary with unlimited computational power. This goal is achieved by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Pengwei Wang , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Secrecy issues of free-space optical links realizing information theoretically secure communications as well as high transmission rates are discussed. We numerically study secrecy communication rates of optical wiretap channel based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Hiroyuki Endo , Te Sun Han , Takao Aoki , Masahide Sasaki

Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne

In this paper, we study the problem of remote state estimation, in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. An authorized user estimates the state of an unstable linear plant, based on the packets received from a sensor, while the packets…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George J. Pappas

This paper studies a new active eavesdropping technique via the so-called spoofing relay attack, which could be launched by the eavesdropper to significantly enhance the information leakage rate from the source over conventional passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

A new generalised approach for multiple correlated sources over a wiretap network is investigated. A basic model consisting of two correlated sources where each produce a component of the common information is initially investigated. There…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Reevana Balmahoon , Ling Cheng

We consider a scenario where a base station (BS) attempts to collect fresh information from power constrained sensors over time-varying band-limited wireless channels. We characterize the data freshness through the recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Philippe Ciblat , Jian Song

Age of information (AoI) is an effective measure to quantify the information freshness in wireless status update systems. It has been further validated that the peak AoI has the potential to capture the core characteristics of the aging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , George K. Karagiannidis

Information-theoretic secrecy, in particular the wiretap channel formulation, provides protection against interception of a message by adversary Eve and has been widely studied in the last two decades. In contrast, covert communications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Kai Kit Wong , Dennis Goeckel

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

This paper explores a new secure wireless communication paradigm where the physical layer security technology is applied to counteract both the detection and eavesdropping attacks, such that the critical covertness and secrecy properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Huihui Wu , Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

The classic MIMO wiretap channel comprises a passive eavesdropper that attempts to intercept communications between an authorized transmitter-receiver pair, each node being equipped with multiple antennas. In a dynamic network, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

The role of multiple antennas for secure communication is investigated within the framework of Wyner's wiretap channel. We characterize the secrecy capacity in terms of generalized eigenvalues when the sender and eavesdropper have multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-31 Ashish Khisti , Gregory Wornell

Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou

Timely status updating is crucial for future applications that involve remote monitoring and control, such as autonomous driving and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu