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This paper considers the problem of simultaneously communicating two messages, a high-security message and a low-security message, to a legitimate receiver, referred to as the security embedding problem. An information-theoretic formulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-09 Hung D. Ly , Tie Liu , Yufei Blankenship

We consider a scenario in which $K$ transmitters attempt to communicate covert messages reliably to a legitimate receiver over a discrete memoryless MAC while simultaneously escaping detection from an adversary who observes their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

We consider a family of quantum communication protocols involving $N$ partners. We demonstrate the existence of a link between the security of these protocols against individual attacks by the eavesdropper, and the violation of some Bell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Scarani , Nicolas Gisin

Exploiting short packets for communications is one of the key technologies for realizing emerging application scenarios such as massive machine type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (uRLLC). In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chen Feng , Hui-Ming Wang , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, we investigate the problem of secure broadcasting over block-fading wiretap channels with limited channel knowledge at the transmitter. More particularly, we analyze the effect of having a finite rate feedback on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Amal Hyadi , Zouheir Rezki , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

End-to-end learning of communication systems with neural networks and particularly autoencoders is an emerging research direction which gained popularity in the last year. In this approach, neural networks learn to simultaneously optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard Wunder

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

An information-theoretic confidential communication is achievable if the eavesdropper has a degraded channel compared to the legitimate receiver. In wireless channels, beamforming and artificial noise can enable such confidentiality.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Wei Yang , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static…

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

In the secure groupcast problem, a transmitter wants to securely groupcast a message with the maximum rate to the first $N$ of $K$ receivers by broadcasting with the minimum bandwidth, where the $K$ receivers are each equipped with a key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Hua Sun

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers via a Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel. A wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal via another MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-01 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

This paper considers a cyber-physical system under an active eavesdropping attack. A remote legitimate user estimates the state of a linear plant from the state information received from a sensor. Transmissions from the sensor occur via an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Matthew Crimson , Justin M. Kennedy , Daniel E. Quevedo

Covert communication is to achieve a reliable transmission from a transmitter to a receiver while guaranteeing an arbitrarily small probability of this transmission being detected by a warden. In this work, we study the covert communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Shihao Yan , Biao He , Yirui Cong , Xiangyun Zhou

In this paper, we study the problem of remote state estimation, in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. An authorized user estimates the state of an unstable linear plant, based on the packets received from a sensor, while the packets…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George J. Pappas

The secrecy performance in both near-field and far-field communications is analyzed using two fundamental metrics: the secrecy capacity under a power constraint and the minimum power requirement to achieve a specified secrecy rate target.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

We consider reversely-degraded secure-communication channels, for which the secrecy capacity is zero if there is no channel feedback. Specifically, we focus on a seeded modular code design for the block-fading Gaussian wiretap channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yingyao Zhou , Natasha Devroye , Onur Günlü

Fundamental limits of secret-key agreement over reciprocal wireless channels are investigated. We consider a two-way block-fading channel where the channel gains in the forward and reverse links between the legitimate terminals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Ashish Khisti

Secure communication with feedback is studied. An achievability scheme in which the backward channel is used to generate a shared secret key is proposed. The scenario of binary symmetric forward and backward channels is considered, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , D. Richard Brown , H. Vincent Poor

The broadcast channel with confidential messages is a well studied scenario from the theoretical standpoint, but there is still lack of practical schemes able to achieve some fixed level of reliability and security over such a channel. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Baldi , Nicola Maturo , Giacomo Ricciutelli , Franco Chiaraluce