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We consider a strategic network monitoring problem involving the operator of a networked system and an attacker. The operator aims to randomize the placement of multiple protected sensors to monitor and protect components that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Jezdimir Milosevic , Mathieu Dahan , Saurabh Amin , Henrik Sandberg

We study the hierarchical secure aggregation problem with groupwise keys. The problem consists of an aggregation server, $U$ relays, and $UV$ users, where each relay serves $V$ disjoint users, and each subset of $G$ users shares an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Minyang Lu , Zhou Li , Haiqiang Chen , Min Xie

This paper investigates the problem of distributed medium access control in a time slotted wireless multiple access network with an unknown finite number of homogeneous users. Assume that each user has a single transmission option. In each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yanru Tang , Faeze Heydaryan , Jie Luo

In this paper, we present a multidimensional, highly effective method for aggregating data for wireless sensor networks while maintaining privacy. The suggested system is resistant to data loss and secure against both active and passive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ayush Rastogi , Harsh Rastogi , Yash Rastogi , Divyansh Dubey

Secure multi-party computation is a central problem in modern cryptography. An important sub-class of this are problems of the following form: Alice and Bob desire to produce sample(s) of a pair of jointly distributed random variables. Each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Vinod Prabhakaran , Manoj Prabhakaran

Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), making communication very expensive. Another important issue in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nisheeth Shrivastava , Chiranjeeb Buragohain , Divyakant Agrawal , Subhash Suri

Much research has been conducted to securely outsource multiple parties' data aggregation to an untrusted aggregator without disclosing each individual's data, or to enable multiple parties to jointly aggregate their data while preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Taeho Jung , XuFei Mao , Xiang-Yang Li , Shaojie Tang , Wei Gong , Lan Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhao Huang , Kai Liang , Yuanming Shi , Songze Li , Youlong Wu

The multiterminal secret key agreement problem by public discussion is formulated with an additional source compression step where, prior to the public discussion phase, users independently compress their private sources to filter out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Chung Chan

The purpose of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is to provide the users with access to the information of interest from data gathered by spatially distributed sensors. Generally the users require only certain aggregate functions of this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jaydip Sen

The secure summation problem, where $K$ users wish to compute the sum of their inputs at a server while revealing nothing about all $K$ inputs beyond the desired sum, is generalized in two aspects - first, the desired function is an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Xihang Yuan , Hua Sun

We consider information theoretic secret key agreement and secure function computation by multiple parties observing correlated data, with access to an interactive public communication channel. Our main result is an upper bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Himanshu Tyagi , Shun Watanabe

Secure Aggregation (SA) is a key component of privacy-friendly federated learning applications, where the server learns the sum of many user-supplied gradients, while individual gradients are kept private. State-of-the-art SA protocols…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Elina van Kempen , Qifei Li , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Claudio Soriente

Generally traffic and the sensor network security have many challenges in the transmission of data in the network. The existing schemes consider homogeneous sensor networks which have poor performance and scalability. Due to many-to-one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-10 P. Karunakaran , Dr. C. Venkatesh

Large-scale decentralized learning frameworks such as federated learning (FL), require both communication efficiency and strong data security, motivating the study of secure aggregation (SA). While information-theoretic SA is well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Han Yu , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

This paper presents a secure aggregation system Armadillo that has disruptive resistance against adversarial clients, such that any coalition of malicious clients (within the tolerated threshold) can affect the aggregation result only by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yiping Ma , Yue Guo , Harish Karthikeyan , Antigoni Polychroniadou

Despite exciting progress on cryptography, secure and efficient query processing over outsourced data remains an open challenge. We develop a communication-efficient and information-theoretically secure system, entitled Obscure for…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Peeyush Gupta , Yin Li , Sharad Mehrotra , Nisha Panwar , Shantanu Sharma , Sumaya Almanee

In this paper, we propose a robust and adaptable secure precoding framework designed to encapsulate a intricate scenario where legitimate users have different information security: secure private or normal public information. Leveraging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sangmin Lee , Seokjun Park , Jeonghun Park , Jinseok Choi

Privacy-preserving data aggregation in ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, considering the distributed communication and control requirement, dynamic network topology, unreliable communication links, etc. Different from the widely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Peng Cheng , Jianping Pan , Ling Shi

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire