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Open-weight coding agents should hold a fundamental advantage over closed-source systems: they can be specialized to private codebases, encoding repository-specific information directly in their weights. Yet the cost and complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ethan Shen , Danny Tormoen , Saurabh Shah , Ali Farhadi , Tim Dettmers

This paper proposes a new design of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) under secrecy considerations. We focus on a NOMA system where a transmitter sends confidential messages to multiple users in the presence of an external eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Biao He , An Liu , Nan Yang , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper considers the problem of secret communication over a multiple access channel with generalized feedback. Two trusted users send independent confidential messages to an intended receiver, in the presence of a passive eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we discuss the potential for improvement of the simple random access scheme by utilizing local information such as the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR). We propose a spatially adaptive random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Dong Min Kim , Seong-Lyun Kim

Secure communication over a memoryless wiretap channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Traditional information-theoretic security methods require an advantage for the main channel over the eavesdropper channel to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

We consider a 1-to-$K$ communication scenario, where a source transmits private messages to $K$ receivers through a broadcast erasure channel, and the receivers feed back strictly causally and publicly their channel states after each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-11 László Czap , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable performance with a small fraction of labeled data by leveraging vast amounts of unlabeled data from the Internet. However, this large pool of untrusted data is extremely vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Cheng-Yi Lee , Ching-Chia Kao , Cheng-Han Yeh , Chun-Shien Lu , Chia-Mu Yu , Chu-Song Chen

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

This paper proposes a secure downlink multi-user transmission scheme enabled by a flexible unmanned aerial vehicle base station (UAV-BS) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). According to their heterogeneous service requirements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Hui-Ming Wang , Xu Zhang

This paper investigates the security enhancement of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where a distributed IRS enabled NOMA transmission framework is proposed to serve users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zheng Zhang , Jian Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yuanwei Liu , Lu Lv , Xunqi Su

This paper proposes a unified semi-blind detection framework for sourced and unsourced random access (RA), which enables next-generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with massive devices. Specifically, the active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

We examine unsourced random access in a fully asynchronous setup, where active users transmit their data without restriction on the start time over a fading channel. In the proposed scheme, the transmitted signal consists of a pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

Near-field spherical wavefronts enable spotlight-like beam focusing to mitigate unintended energy leakage, creating new opportunities for physical-layer security (PLS). However, under hybrid analog-digital (HAD) antenna architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Huiyun Xia , Chuan Wu , Chintha Tellambura

Imperfect secrecy in communication systems is investigated. Instead of using equivocation as a measure of secrecy, the distortion that an eavesdropper incurs in producing an estimate of the source sequence is examined. The communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Curt Schieler , Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

Access control encryption (ACE) enforces, through a sanitizer as the mediator, that only legitimate sender-receiver pairs can communicate, without the sanitizer knowing the communication metadata, including its sender and recipient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Cheuk Ting Li , Sherman S. M. Chow

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access setting is considered, in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in two possible scenarios of unsecure environments: existence of an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

Run Time Assurance (RTA) Systems are online verification mechanisms that filter an unverified primary controller output to ensure system safety. The primary control may come from a human operator, an advanced control approach, or an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Kerianne Hobbs , Mark Mote , Matthew Abate , Samuel Coogan , Eric Feron

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

This work, for the first time, considers confidential data collection in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless networks, where the scheduled ground sensor node (SN) intends to transmit confidential information to the UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Min Li , Jun Li , Feng Shu

Spectrally-efficient secure non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently attained a substantial research interest for fifth generation development. This work explores crucial security issue in NOMA which is stemmed from utilizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sapna Thapar , Deepak Mishra , Ravikant Saini