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In this paper, we focus on the convex mutual information, which was found at the lowest level split in multilevel coding schemes with communications over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Theoretical analysis shows that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mingxi Yin , Bingli Jiao , Dongsheng Zheng , Yuli Yang

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system. The storage system consists of $N$ non-colluding databases, each storing a coded version of $M$ messages. In the PIR problem, the user wishes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

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

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem for a multigraph-based replication system, where each set of $r$ files is stored on two of the servers according to an underlying $r$-multigraph. Our goal is to establish upper and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shreya Meel , Xiangliang Kong , Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Itzhak Tamo , Sennur Ulukus

ISAC systems introduce new privacy risks because an unintended sensing node may exploit the shared radio waveform to infer transmitter-related information even when the communication payload remains secure. This paper investigates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Vaibhav Kumar , Ahmad Bazzi , Christina Pöpper , Marwa Chafii

Decentralized Storage Networks (DSNs) are emerging as a foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0, offering global peer-to-peer storage. However, a critical vulnerability persists: user privacy during file retrieval remains largely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Minghui Xu , Hechuan Guo , Xiuzhen Cheng

A private information retrieval (PIR) protocol guarantees that a user can privately retrieve files stored in a database without revealing any information about the identity of the requested file. Existing information-theoretic PIR protocols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

In the classical private information retrieval (PIR) setup, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database or a distributed storage system (DSS) without revealing the file identity to the servers holding the data. In the quantum PIR (QPIR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti

Privacy preservation is an important issue in today's context of extreme penetration of internet and mobile technologies. It is more important in the case of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) where collected data often requires in-network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arijit Ukil

We show that it is possible to achieve information theoretic location privacy for secondary users (SUs) in database-driven cognitive radio networks (CRNs) with an end-to-end delay less than a second, which is significantly better than that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Mohamed Grissa , Attila A. Yavuz , Bechir Hamdaoui

We consider the problem of private distributed multi-party multiplication. It is well-established that Shamir secret-sharing coding strategies can enable perfect information-theoretic privacy in distributed computation via the celebrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Viveck R. Cadambe , Ateet Devulapalli , Haewon Jeong , Flavio P. Calmon

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols ensure that a user can download a file from a database without revealing any information on the identity of the requested file to the servers storing the database. While existing protocols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

This work presents an algorithmic framework that uses linear programming to construct \emph{addition-based Private Information Retrieval (AB-PIR)} schemes, where retrieval is performed by downloading only linear combinations of message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Ningze Wang , Alex Sprintson

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while keeping the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Physical layer secret key generation exploits the reciprocal channel randomness for key generation and has proven to be an effective addition security layer in wireless communications. However, static or scarcely random channels require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo

We consider a secure communication scenario through the two-user Gaussian interference channel: each transmitter (user) has a confidential message to send reliably to its intended receiver while keeping it secret from the other receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Parisa Babaheidarian , Somayeh Salimi , Panos Papadimitratos

Anonymous metadata-private voice call protocols suffer from high delays and so far cannot provide group call functionality. Anonymization inherently yields delay penalties, and scaling signalling and communication to groups of users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Christoph Coijanovic , Akim Stark , Daniel Schadt , Thorsten Strufe

We study the joint source-channel coding problem of transmitting a discrete-time analog source over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with interference known at transmitter.We consider the case when the source and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-26 Yu-Chih Huang , Krishna R. Narayanan

The problem of private information retrieval gets renewed attentions in recent years due to its information-theoretic reformulation and applications in distributed storage systems. PIR capacity is the maximal number of bits privately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

We present a square root limit on the amount of information transmitted reliably and with low probability of detection (LPD) over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. Specifically, if the transmitter has AWGN channels to an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley