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Sharing a secret efficiently amongst a group of participants is not easy since there is always an adversary / eavesdropper trying to retrieve the secret. In secret sharing schemes, every participant is given a unique share. When the desired…
Estimating similarity between vertices is a fundamental issue in network analysis across various domains, such as social networks and biological networks. Methods based on common neighbors and structural contexts have received much…
Most current research on quantum cryptography requires transmission and reception of single photons that creates severe implementation challenges and limits range. This paper argues for the development of threshold quantum cryptography…
We consider vector space interference alignment strategies over the $K$-user interference channel and derive an upper bound on the achievable degrees of freedom as a function of the channel diversity $L$, where the channel diversity is…
In this work, we study diversity-aware clustering problems where the data points are associated with multiple attributes resulting in intersecting groups. A clustering solution needs to ensure that the number of chosen cluster centers from…
Recently, contrastive learning has risen to be a promising approach for large-scale self-supervised learning. However, theoretical understanding of how it works is still unclear. In this paper, we propose a new guarantee on the downstream…
This paper presents a new approach to securing information stored in a database. It has three components including: an operation for indexing images using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), which will constitute the reference images,…
A visible light communication (VLC) system can adopt multi-color light emitting diode (LED) arrays to support multiple users. In this paper, a multi-layer coding and constrained partial group decoding (CPGD) method is proposed to tackle…
Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to reveal attributes or even predicates about…
Vector Stream Cipher (VSC) is a stream cipher which consists of permutation polynomial over a ring of modulo $2^w$. The algorithm for generating key stream is very simple and the encryption is very fast. Some theoretical attacks for VSC…
In this paper, we revisit the verification of strong K-step opacity (K-SSO) for partially-observed discrete-event systems modeled as nondeterministic finite-state automata. As a stronger version of the standard K-step opacity, K-SSO…
In response to the rapid growth of global videomtraffic and the limitations of traditional wireless transmission systems, we propose a novel dual-stage vector quantization framework, VQ-DeepVSC, tailored to enhance video transmission over…
Variance-Invariance-Covariance Regularization (VICReg) is a self-supervised learning (SSL) method that has shown promising results on a variety of tasks. However, the fundamental mechanisms underlying VICReg remain unexplored. In this…
Secret image sharing deals with splitting confidential images into several shares and the original image can be reconstructed from the qualified subset of the shares. Secret sharing schemes are used in transmission and storage of private…
This paper proposes an affinity fusion graph framework to effectively connect different graphs with highly discriminating power and nonlinearity for natural image segmentation. The proposed framework combines adjacency-graphs and kernel…
Quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes without entanglement have huge advantages in scalability and are easier to realize as they only require sequential communications of a single quantum system. However, these schemes often come with…
Cryptanalysis on standard quantum cryptographic systems generally involves finding optimal adversarial attack strategies on the underlying protocols. The core principle of modelling quantum attacks in many cases reduces to the adversary's…
The popularity of Internet usage although increases exponentially, it is incapable of providing the security for exchange of confidential data between the users. As a result, several cryptosystems for encryption of data and images have been…
Virtual machine consolidation describes the process of reallocation of virtual machines (VMs) on a set of target servers. It can be formulated as a mixed integer linear programming problem which is proven to be an NP-hard problem. In this…
Steganography is a process that hides secrete message or secrete hologram or secrete video or secrete image whose mere presence within the source data should be undetectable and use for transmitting secret information over public media.…