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Cooperation among wireless nodes has been recently proposed for improving the physical layer (PHY) security of wireless transmission in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. While existing PHY security literature answered the question…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-16 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a model in a distributed fashion. Many existing researches have focused on improving communication efficiency of high-dimensional models and addressing bias caused by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yuzhu Mao , Zihao Zhao , Meilin Yang , Le Liang , Yang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Tian Lan , Xiao-Ping Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a large intelligent surface-enhanced (LIS-enhanced) system, where a LIS is deployed to assist secure transmission. Our design aims to maximize the achievable secrecy rates in different channel models, i.e.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Xiang-Gen Xia , Yongjian Wang , Chengshan Xiao

Privacy-preserving estimation of counts of items in streaming data finds applications in several real-world scenarios including word auto-correction and traffic management applications. Recent works of RAPPOR and Apple's count-mean sketch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dinusha Vatsalan , Raghav Bhaskar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) framework where multiple clients collaborate to train a model without exposing their private data. FL involves cycles of local computations and bi-directional communications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangjian Hou , Sarit Khirirat , Mohammad Yaqub , Samuel Horvath

The ever-growing learning model size nowadays challenges the communication efficiency and privacy preservation of the traditional federated learning (FL). In this paper, we propose a novel differentially private (DP) over-the-air federated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zihao Hu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

We propose three private information retrieval (PIR) protocols for distributed storage systems (DSSs) where data is stored using an arbitrary linear code. The first two protocols, named Protocol 1 and Protocol 2, achieve privacy for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Siddhartha Kumar , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Provisioning secrecy for all users, given the heterogeneity and uncertainty of their channel conditions, locations, and the unknown location of the attacker/eavesdropper, is challenging and not always feasible. This work takes the first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Monir Abughalwa , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Thang X. Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Symeon Chatzinotas

Rapid evolution of wireless medical devices and network technologies has fostered the growth of remote monitoring systems. Such new technologies enable monitoring patients' medical records anytime and anywhere without limiting patients'…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Lutfi Samara , Amr Mohamed , Mohsen Guizani , Aiman Erbad , Abdulla Al-Ali

Current data-driven Wi-Fi-based indoor localization systems face three critical challenges: protecting user privacy, achieving accurate predictions in dynamic multipath environments, and generalizing across different deployments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kanishka Roy , Tahsin Fuad Hasan , Chenfeng Wu , Eshwar Vangala , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula

The pythagorean fuzzy set (PFS) which is developed based on intuitionistic fuzzy set, is more efficient in elaborating and disposing uncertainties in indeterminate situations, which is a very reason of that PFS is applied in various kinds…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuanpeng He , Lijian Li , Tianxiang Zhan

Physical layer (PHY) steganography conceals secrets by making subtle modifications to transmitted radio waveforms, which can be applied to establish covert communication systems. Given the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi infrastructures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Jiamu Guo , Hailang Jia , Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Linning Peng , Liquan Chen

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative training of a global model across multiple local devices without requiring them to share raw data. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Dang Qua Nguyen , Morteza Hashemi , Erik Perrins , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , David J. Love , Taejoon Kim

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework recently. It aims at collaboratively learning a shared global model by performing distributed training locally on edge devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo , Jie Zhang , Ziming Liu

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

Device-independent quantum secret sharing (DI-QSS) provides high security by eliminating the need to trust devices, yet its practical performance is limited by channel loss and noise. This work extends advantage distillation from two-party…

Federated Learning (FL) as a secure distributed learning framework gains interests in Internet of Things (IoT) due to its capability of protecting the privacy of participant data. However, traditional FL systems are vulnerable to Free-Rider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jianhua Wang , Xiaolin Chang , Jelena Mišić , Vojislav B. Mišić , Yixiang Wang

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

Flexible grid optical networks allow a better exploitation of fiber capacity, by enabling a denser frequency allocation. A tighter channel spacing, however, requires narrower filters, which increase linear intersymbol interference (ISI),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Tommaso Foggi , Giulio Colavolpe , Alberto Bononi , Paolo Serena

With the expansion of cloud services, serious concerns about the privacy of users' data arise due to the exposure of the unencrypted data to the server during computation. Various security primitives are under investigation to preserve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhehong Wang , Dennis Sylvester , Hun-Seok Kim , David Blaauw