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We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

The problem of security against timing based traffic analysis in wireless networks is considered in this work. An analytical measure of anonymity in eavesdropped networks is proposed using the information theoretic concept of equivocation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-26 Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam , Ting He , Lang Tong

We consider a network consisting of $n$ nodes that aim to track a continually updating process or event. To disseminate updates about the event to the network, two sources are available, such that information obtained from one source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

Applications like environmental sensing, and health and activity sensing, are supported by networks of devices (nodes) that send periodic packet transmissions over the wireless channel to a sink node. We look at simple abstractions that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of a keyhole-aided multi-user communication network in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The communication happens through the same keyhole for legitimate users and eavesdroppers. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Parwez Alam , Ankit Dubey , Jules M. Moualeu , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Chinmoy Kundu

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

We consider a slotted-time system with a transmitter-receiver pair. In the system, a transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through a communication channel. We assume that the channel is error-free but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

This paper studies strategic design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) architecture for status updating of remotely navigating agents. We consider an ISAC-enabled base station that can sense the state of a remote source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over the broadcast channel with receiver side information under the lens of individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

In this paper, we study the problem of physical layer security in large-scale multiple input multiple output (LS-MIMO) systems. The large number of antenna elements in LS-MIMO system is exploited to enhance transmission security and improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

This paper investigates the problem of minimizing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) when the communication channel has a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

The secrecy rate region of wiretap interference channels with a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper is studied under receiver energy harvesting constraints. To stay operational in the network, the legitimate receivers demand energy alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ali Kariminezhad , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Hendrik Vogt , Aydin Sezgin

Secret-key agreement protocols over wiretap channels controlled by a state parameter are studied. The entire state sequence is known (non-causally) to the sender but not to the receiver and the eavesdropper. Upper and lower bounds on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Ashish Khisti

In this paper, we consider a status update system, in which update packets are sent to the destination via a wireless medium that allows for multiple rates, where a higher rate also naturally corresponds to a higher error probability. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff

The existing investigations on artificial noise (AN) security systems assumed that only null spaces is used to send AN signals, and all eigen-subchannels should be used to transmit messages. Our previous work proposed an AN scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yiliang Liu , Hsiao-Hwa Chen , Liangmin Wang , Weixiao Meng

We study physical-layer security in wireless ad hoc networks and investigate two types of multi-antenna transmission schemes for providing secrecy enhancements. To establish secure transmission against malicious eavesdroppers, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

The capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel model is analyzed when there are multiple antennas at the sender, intended receiver and eavesdropper. The associated channel matrices are fixed and known to all the terminals. A computable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ashish Khisti , Gregory Wornell

This paper investigates the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a communication system whose channel suffers a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to send updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides