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Quantum cryptography studies the unconditional information security against an all-powerful eavesdropper in secret key distillation. However the assumption of an omnipotent eavesdropper is too strict for some realistic implementations. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ziwen Pan , Ivan B. Djordjevic

This paper investigates information-theoretic oblivious transfer via a discrete memoryless broadcast channel with one sender and two receivers. We analyze both non-colluding and colluding honest-but-curious user models and establish general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hadi Aghaee , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

In this paper, we consider the issue of covert communications with random access protocol. We consider that the legitimate user Bob has no priori knowledge about packet arrival time and thus employs data-aided frame detection based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Weile Zhang , Nan Zhao , Shun Zhang , F. Richard Yu

We consider the problem of covert communication with random slot selection over binary-input Discrete Memoryless Channels and Additive White Gaussian Noise channels, in which a transmitter attempts to reliably communicate with a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Shi-Yuan Wang , Keerthi S. K. Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

This work investigates the security and reliability analysis for a novel satellite-terrestrial (SatTer) network. Specifically, a satellite attempts to transmit confidential information to a ground user (GU) via the support of multiple relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tan N. Nguyen , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Trinh Van Chien , Van-Duc Phan , Miroslav Voznak , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, the physical layer security aspects of a wireless framework over {\alpha}-\k{appa}-{\mu} shadowed (AKMS) fading channel are examined by acquiring closed-form novel expressions of average secrecy capacity, secure outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 A. S. M. Badrudduza , S. H. Islam , M. K. Kundu , I. S. Ansari

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

In this paper, we consider an active eavesdropping scenario in a cooperative system consisting of a source, a destination, and an active eavesdropper with multiple decode-and-forward relays. Considering an existing assumption in which an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-06 Sarbani Ghose , Chinmoy Kundu , Octavia A. Dobre

We consider the communication scenario where a source-destination pair wishes to keep the information secret from a relay node despite wanting to enlist its help. For this scenario, an interesting question is whether the relay node should…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

Cooperative relaying improves the performance of wireless networks by forming a network of multiple independent virtual sources transmitting the same information as the source node. However, interference induced in the network reduces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Bappi Barua , Mehran Abolhasan , Daniel Franklin , Farzad Safaei

This paper considers the information bottleneck (IB) problem of a Rayleigh fading multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) channel. Due to the bottleneck constraint, it is impossible for the oblivious relay to inform the destination node of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Hao Xu , Tianyu Yang , Giuseppe Caire , Shlomo Shamai

The security of prepare-and-measure satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD), under restricted eavesdropping scenarios, is addressed. We particularly consider cases where the eavesdropper, Eve, has limited access to the transmitted…

We evaluate and quantify the joint effect of fading and multiple interferers on the physical-layer (PHY) security of a system consisted of a base-station (BS), a legitimate user, and an eavesdropper. To this end, we present a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Dimitrios S. Karas , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , George K. Karagiannidis

This work investigates the secrecy performance for a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer system that operates in the presence of cooperating eavesdroppers. The multi-antenna access point's transmission is used for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Furqan Jameel , Shurjeel Wyne

This paper investigates the physical layer security (PLS) performance of $\alpha$-$\mathcal{F}$ fading channels with pointing errors under passive and active eavesdropping scenarios. Novel analytical expressions are derived for key PLS…

In Part I of this two-part paper on confidential communication over wireless channels, we studied the fundamental security limits of quasi-static fading channels from the point of view of outage secrecy capacity with perfect and imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Joao Barros , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Steven W. McLaughlin

Secure communication over a memoryless wiretap channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Traditional information-theoretic security methods require an advantage for the main channel over the eavesdropper channel to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

In this paper, the individual secrecy of two-way wiretap channel is investigated, where two legitimate users' messages are separately guaranteed secure against an external eavesdropper. For one thing, in some communication scenarios, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Chao Qi , Bin Dai , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper we propose a two-way protocol of physical layer security using the method of privacy amplification against eavesdroppers. First we justify our proposed protocol by analyzing the physical layer security provided by the classic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

This paper investigates the maximal secrecy rate over a wiretap channel subject to reliability and secrecy constraints at a given blocklength. New achievability and converse bounds are derived, which are shown to be tighter than existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Wei Yang , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor