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We introduce a model of persuasion in which a sender without any commitment power privately gathers information about an unknown state of the world and then chooses what to verifiably disclose to a receiver. The receiver does not know how…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-25 Itai Arieli , Colin Stewart

Shannon's fundamental bound for perfect secrecy says that the entropy of the secret message cannot be larger than the entropy of the secret key initially shared by the sender and the legitimate receiver. Massey gave an information theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Siu-Wai Ho , Terence H. Chan , Alex Grant , Chinthani Uduwerelle

We investigate whether it is possible to teleport the coherence of an unknown quantum state from Alice to Bob by communicating a lesser number of classical bits in comparison to what is required for teleporting an unknown quantum state. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Sohail , Arun K Pati , Vijeth Aradhya , Indranil Chakrabarty , Subhasree Patro

We show the optimal setup that allows Alice to teleport coherent states to Bob giving the greatest fidelity (efficiency) when one takes into account two realistic assumptions. The first one says that in any actual implementation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 F. S. Luiz , Gustavo Rigolin

A secret-key generation scheme based on a layered broadcasting strategy is introduced for slow-fading channels. In the model considered, Alice wants to share a key with Bob while keeping the key secret from Eve, who is a passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

Correlated sources are present in communication systems where protocols ensure that there is some predetermined information for sources to transmit. Here, two correlated sources across a channel with eavesdroppers are investigated, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 R. Balmahoon , H. Vinck , L. Cheng

A secret key can be used to conceal information from an eavesdropper during communication, as in Shannon's cipher system. Most theoretical guarantees of secrecy require the secret key space to grow exponentially with the length of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Curt Schieler , Paul Cuff

In the present work, the averaged fidelity is introduced as the steering parameter. According to the definitions of steering from Alice to Bob, a general scheme for designing linear steering criteria is developed for a high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Xiaohua Wu , Bo You , Tao Zhou

We begin by formulating and characterizing a dominance criterion for prize sequences: $x$ dominates $y$ if any impatient agent prefers $x$ to $y$. With this in hand, we define a notion of comparative patience. Alice is more patient than Bob…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-03 Mark Whitmeyer

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

A scheme is proposed by which two parties, Alice and Bob, can securely exchange real numbers. The scheme requires Alice and Bob to share entanglement and both to perform Bell-state measurements. With a qubit system two real numbers can each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung Soon Jang , Hai-Woong Lee

We study the maximal mutual information about a random variable $Y$ (representing non-private information) displayed through an additive Gaussian channel when guaranteeing that only $\epsilon$ bits of information is leaked about a random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Shahab Asoodeh , Fady Alajaji , Tamas Linder

Recently, Boyer et al. presented a novel semiquantum key distribution protocol [M. Boyer, D. Kenigsberg, and T. Mor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140501 (2007)], by using four quantum states, each of which is randomly prepared by Z basis or X…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jian Wang , Sheng Zhang , Quan Zhang , Chao-Jing Tang

We introduce a gossip-like protocol for covert message passing between Alice and Bob as they move in an area watched over by a warden Willie. The area hosts a multitude of Internet of (Battlefield) Things (Io\b{eta}T) objects. Alice and Bob…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin

Quantum Key Distribution is a quantum communication technique in which random numbers are encoded on quantum systems, usually photons, and sent from one party, Alice, to another, Bob. Using the data sent via the quantum signals,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 T. C. Ralph , N. Walk

We investigate the transmission of a secret message from Alice to Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve) and many of decode-and-forward relay nodes. Each link comprises a set of parallel channels, modeling for example an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Stefano Tomasin

Covert communication is necessary when revealing the mere existence of a message leaks sensitive information to an attacker. Consider a network link where an authorized transmitter Jack sends packets to an authorized receiver Steve, and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

It is quite popular nowadays for researchers and data analysts holding different datasets to seek assistance from each other to enhance their modeling performance. We consider a scenario where different learners hold datasets with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-15 Jiawei Zhang , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding

In this paper we study interactive "one-shot" analogues of the classical Slepian-Wolf theorem. Alice receives a value of a random variable $X$, Bob receives a value of another random variable $Y$ that is jointly distributed with $X$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Alexander Kozachinskiy

We consider visible compression for discrete memoryless sources of mixed quantum states when only classical information can be sent from Alice to Bob. We assume that Bob knows the source statistics, and that Alice and Bob have identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emina Soljanin