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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

Speech emotion sensing in communication networks has a wide range of applications in real life. In these applications, voice data are transmitted from the user to the central server for storage, processing, and decision making. However,…

We introduce a new class of lower overhead tunnel that is resistant to traffic analysis. The tunnel opportunistically reduces the number of dummy packets transmitted during busy times when many flows are simultaneously active while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Saman Feghhi , Douglas J. Leith

Transparency regarding the processing of personal data in online services is a necessary precondition for informed decisions on whether or not to share personal data. In this paper, we argue that privacy interfaces shall incorporate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Elias Grünewald , Johannes M. Halkenhäußer , Nicola Leschke , Johanna Washington , Cristina Paupini , Frank Pallas

Mobile devices have access to personal, potentially sensitive data, and there is a growing number of applications that transmit this personally identifiable information (PII) over the network. In this paper, we present the AntShield system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Anastasia Shuba , Evita Bakopoulou , Milad Asgari Mehrabadi , Hieu Le , David Choffnes , Athina Markopoulou

Semantic communication (SemCom) is regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology in 6G, aiming to transcend the constraints of ``Shannon's trap" by filtering out redundant information and extracting the core of effective data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Dayu Fan , Haixiao Gao , Yining Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Suyu Lv , Zhidi Zhang , Mengying Sun , Shujun Han , Chen Dong , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

Rapid urbanization calls for smart traffic management solutions that incorporate sensors, distributed traffic controllers and V2X communication technologies to provide fine-grained traffic control to mitigate congestion. As in many other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Pratham Oza , Mahsa Foruhandeh , Ryan Gerdes , Thidapat Chantem

Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) enable communications between vehicles, road-side infrastructures, and road-users to improve users' safety and to efficiently manage traffic. Most, if not all, of the intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nardine Basta , Ming Ding , Muhammad Ikram , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Shared, dynamic network infrastructures, such as dual-use LEO satellite constellations, pose critical threats to metadata privacy, particularly for state actors operating in mixed-trust environments. This work proposes an enhanced anonymity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nilesh Vyas , Fabien Geyer , Svetoslav Duhovnikov

Intelligent infrastructure will critically rely on the dense instrumentation of sensors and actuators that constantly transmit streaming data to cloud-based analytics for real-time monitoring. For example, driverless cars communicate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Cynthia Dwork , George J. Pappas

Machine Learning approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks benefit from a comprehensive collection of real-life user data. At the same time, there is a clear need for protecting the privacy of the users whose data is collected and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Ali Davody , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

Data encryption is the primary method of protecting the privacy of consumer device Internet communications from network observers. The ability to automatically detect unencrypted data in network traffic is therefore an essential tool for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Daniel Hahn , Noah Apthorpe , Nick Feamster

Over the years, the Internet has been enriched with new available communication technologies, for both fixed and mobile networks and devices, exhibiting an impressive growth in terms of performance, with steadily increasing available data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Michele Polese , Federico Chiariotti , Elia Bonetto , Filippo Rigotto , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Split DNNs enable edge devices by offloading intensive computation to a cloud server, but this paradigm exposes privacy vulnerabilities, as the intermediate features can be exploited to reconstruct the private inputs via Feature Inversion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Zhihan Ren , Lijun He , Jiaxi Liang , Xinzhu Fu , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in smart home environments, has introduced considerable security and privacy concerns due to their persistent connectivity and interaction with cloud services. Despite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Fabio Palmese , Anna Maria Mandalari , Hamed Haddadi , Alessandro Enrico Cesare Redondi

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. Differential privacy (DP) is often employed to address such issues.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) generalizes differential privacy by allowing privacy guarantees to be expressed with respect to an arbitrary distance metric over secrets. While mDP has been adopted in geo-location protection, most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Gaoyi Chen , Yan Huang , Chenxi Qiu

It is well known that apps running on mobile devices extensively track and leak users' personally identifiable information (PII); however, these users have little visibility into PII leaked through the network traffic generated by their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Jingjing Ren , Ashwin Rao , Martina Lindorfer , Arnaud Legout , David Choffnes

This paper presents a private transfer architecture for the Internet Computer (ICP) that decouples deposit and retrieval through two short-lived intermediaries, with sealed storage and attested teardown by an ephemeral witness. The protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Eduardo Salazar

Advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have revolutionized the digital age to a point where animate and inanimate objects can be used as a communication channel. In addition, the ubiquity of mobile phones with increasing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Zhenxin Feng , Kwan-Wu Chin