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In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers, while a wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal. This model is motivated by wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-30 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

Inspired by compressive sensing principles, we propose novel error control coding techniques for communication systems. The information bits are encoded in the support and the non-zero entries of a sparse signal. By selecting a dictionary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Madhusudan Kumar Sinha , Arun Pachai Kannu

Rapidly changing social norms and national, legal, and political conditions socially constrain people from discussing sensitive topics such as sexuality or religion. Such constrained, vulnerable minorities are often worried about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Vinod Khandkar , Kieron Ivy Turk , Ehsan Toreini , Nishanth Sastry

A covert communication system under block fading channels is considered where users experience uncertainty about their channel knowledge. The transmitter seeks to hide the covert communication to a private user by exploiting a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

Coded compressed sensing is an algorithmic framework tailored to sparse recovery in very large dimensional spaces. This framework is originally envisioned for the unsourced multiple access channel, a wireless paradigm attuned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

This letter considers a network comprising a transmitter, which employs random linear network coding to encode a message, a legitimate receiver, which can recover the message if it gathers a sufficient number of linearly independent coded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

Semantic communication is implemented based on shared background knowledge, but the sharing mechanism risks privacy leakage. In this letter, we propose an encrypted semantic communication system (ESCS) for privacy preserving, which combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Feng Yang

We consider a set of $n$ messages and a group of $k$ clients. Each client is privileged for receiving an arbitrary subset of the messages over a broadcast erasure channel, which generalizes scenario of a previous work. We propose a method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh , Parastoo Sadeghi

Anonymous communication networks have emerged as crucial tools for obfuscating communication pathways and concealing user identities. However, their practical deployments face significant challenges, including susceptibility to artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chao Ge , Wei Yuan , Ge Chen , Yanbin Pan , Yuan Shen

We study the index coding problem in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the aim is to communicate without allowing the eavesdropper to learn any single message aside from the messages it may already know as side information. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yuxin Liu , Badri N. Vellambi , Young-Han Kim , Parastoo Sadeghi

Secure communication protocols are often formulated in a paradigm where the message is encoded in measurement outcomes. In this work we propose a rather unexplored framework in which the message is encoded in measurement settings rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 Syed. M. Assad , Amir Kalev

In this work, inspired by secret sharing schemes, we introduce a privacy-preserving approach for network consensus, by which all nodes in a network can reach an agreement on their states without exposing the individual state to neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Silun Zhang , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Munther Dahleh

Secrecy encoding for remote state estimation in the presence of adversarial eavesdroppers is a well studied problem. Typical existing secrecy encoding schemes rely on the transmitter's knowledge of the remote estimator's current…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Justin M. Kennedy , Jason J. Ford , Daniel E. Quevedo , Falko Dressler

Covert communication allows us to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is occurring. This provides protection in situations where knowledge that people are talking to each other may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Ryan Amiri

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

A Covert Channel (CC) exploits legitimate communication mechanisms to stealthily transmit information, often bypassing traditional security controls. Among these, a novel paradigm called History Covert Channels (HCC) leverages past network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Christoph Weissenborn , Steffen Wendzel

We propose a novel error concealment algorithm to be used at the receiver side of a lossy image transmission system. Our algorithm involves hiding the edge map of the original image at the transmitter within itself using a robust…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Shabnam Sodagari , Peyman Hesami , Alireza Nasiri Avanaki

We propose and study the cooperative MIMO architecture to enable and to improve the secrecy transmissions between clusters of mobile devices in the presence of an eavesdropper with certain location constraint. The cooperative MIMO system in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Zhong Zheng , Zygmunt Haas , Mario Kieburg

It has been found that the signal can be encoded in the choice of the measurement basis of one of the communicating parties, while the outcomes of the measurement are irrelevant for the communication and therefore may be discarded. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Dong Xie , An Min Wang

Authentication and encryption are traditionally treated as two separate processes in wireless networks, this paper integrates user authentication into the process of solving eavesdropping attacks. A compressed sensing (CS)-based framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Chaoqing Tang