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For an arbitrary degree distribution pair (DDP), we construct a sequence of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles with girth growing logarithmically in block-length using Ramanujan graphs. When the DDP has minimum left degree at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arunkumar Subramanian , Andrew Thangaraj , Matthieu Bloch , Steven W. McLaughlin

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for providing a strong theoretical guarantee of data privacy to data contributors against an untrusted data collector. Under a typical LDP scheme, each data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ye Zheng , Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Yidan Hu , Rui Zhang , Yanchao Zhang

Low probability of detection (LPD) communication has recently emerged as a new transmission technology to address privacy and security in wireless networks. Recent studies have established the fundamental limits of LPD communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Jinsong Hu , Stephen V. Hanly

We provide a general formalism to characterize the cryptographic properties of quantum channels in the realistic scenario where the two honest parties employ prepare and measure protocols and the known two-way communication reconciliation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Joonwoo Bae , Antonio Acin

Secret key generation (SKG) between authenticated devices is a pivotal task for secure communications. Diffie-Hellman (DH) is de-facto standard but not post-quantum secure. In this paper, we shall invent and analyze a new security primitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Gerhard Wunder , Axel Flinth , Daniel Becker , Benedikt Groß

In this paper, we study the problem of secret key generation from both correlated sources and a secure channel. We obtain the optimal secret key rate in this problem and show that the optimal scheme is to conduct secret key generation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Daming Cao , Wei Kang

Physical layer deception (PLD) is a novel security mechanism that combines physical layer security (PLS) with deception technologies to actively defend against eavesdroppers. In this paper, we establish a novel semantic model for PLD that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

We focus Slepian-Wolf (SW) coding in the short blocklength for reconciliation in secret key generation and physical unclonable functions. In the problem formulation, two legitimate parties wish to generate a common secret key from a noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Mahdi Shakiba-Herfeh , Arsenia Chorti

We propose a wide class of distillation schemes for multi-partite entangled states that are CSS-states. Our proposal provides not only superior efficiency, but also new insights on the connection between CSS-states and bipartite graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-05 Kai Chen , Hoi-Kwong Lo

In this paper, we propose a framework of the mutual information-maximizing (MIM) quantized decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes by using simple mappings and fixed-point additions. Our decoding method is generic in the sense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Peng Kang , Kui Cai , Xuan He , Shuangyang Li , Jinhong Yuan

The multipath-rich wireless environment associated with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a fading channel response that is time-varying, location-sensitive, and uniquely shared by a given transmitter-receiver pair. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Chunxuan Ye , Suhas Mathur , Alex Reznik , Yogendra Shah , Wade Trappe , Narayan Mandayam

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a popular protocol that provides information theoretically secure keys to multiple parties. Two important post-processing steps of QKD are 1) the information reconciliation (IR) step, where parties…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Lev Tauz , Debarnab Mitra , Jayanth Shreekumar , Murat Can Sarihan , Chee Wei Wong , Lara Dolecek

Algorithms are presented that efficiently shape the parity bits of systematic irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes by following the sequential encoding order of the accumulator. Simulations over additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Diego Lentner , Thomas Wiegart , Richard D. Wesel

We describe how to achieve optimal entanglement generation and one-way entanglement distillation rates by coherent implementation of a class of secret key generation and secret key distillation protocols, respectively. This short paper is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Devetak , Andreas Winter

While low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are near capacity-achieving when paired with iterative decoders, these decoders may not output a codeword due to the existence of pseudocodewords. Thus, pseudocodewords have been studied to give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wittawat Kositwattanarerk , Gretchen L. Matthews , Emily McMillon , Tunchanok Yutitumsatit

For efficient modulation and error control coding, the deliberate flipping approach imposes the run-length-limited(RLL) constraint by bit error before recording. From the read side, a high coding rate limits the correcting capability of RLL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Hong-fu Chou

We consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving physical (PHY) layer based security. Two different cooperation schemes are considered. In the first scheme,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Steven Weber

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

A common approach for introducing security at the physical layer is to rely on the channel variations of the wireless environment. This type of approach is not always suitable for wireless networks where the channel remains static for most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Mohammad Iftekhar Husain , Suyash Mahant , Ramalingam Sridhar

It is well-known that wireless channel reciprocity together with fading can be exploited to generate a common secret key between two legitimate communication partners. This can be achieved by exchanging known deterministic pilot signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Rick Fritschek , Gerhard Wunder