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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that allows a central server to train machine learning models using remote users' data. Despite its growing popularity, FL faces challenges in preserving the privacy of local datasets, its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb

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

Today, Internet becomes the essential part of our lives. Over 90 percent of the ecommerce is developed on the Internet. A security algorithm became very necessary for producer client transactions assurance and the financial applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-30 R. K. Pateriya , J. L. Rana , S. C. Shrivastava , Jaideep Patel

In a secure message transmission (SMT) scenario a sender wants to send a message in a private and reliable way to a receiver. Sender and receiver are connected by $n$ vertex disjoint paths, referred to as wires, $t$ of which can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-11-08 Hongsong Shi , Shaoquan Jiang , Rei Safavi-Naini , Mohammed Ashraful Tuhin

This paper puts forward a safe mechanism of data transmission to tackle the security problem of information which is transmitted in Internet. The encryption standards such as DES (Data Encryption Standard), AES (Advanced Encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Shaik Rasool , G. Sridhar , K. Hemanth Kumar , P. Ravi Kumar

This paper studies the information theoretic secure aggregation problem in a three-layer hierarchical network with arbitrary heterogeneous data assignment, where clustered users communicate with an aggregation server through an intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Xiang Zhang

We consider the General Gaussian Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel (GGMAC-WT). In this scenario, multiple users communicate with an intended receiver in the presence of an intelligent and informed eavesdropper. We define two suitable secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ender Tekin , Aylin Yener

We study joint spectrum allocation and user association in heterogeneous cellular networks with multiple tiers of base stations. A stochastic geometric approach is applied as the basis to derive the average downlink user data rate in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Wei Bao , Ben Liang

We study common randomness generation problems where $n$ players aim to generate same sequences of random coin flips where some subsets of the players share an independent common coin which can be tossed multiple times, and there is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanjun Han , Kedar Tatwawadi , Gowtham R. Kurri , Zhengqing Zhou , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Tsachy Weissman

Secure aggregation is a popular protocol in privacy-preserving federated learning, which allows model aggregation without revealing the individual models in the clear. On the other hand, conventional secure aggregation protocols incur a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Irem Ergun , Hasin Us Sami , Basak Guler

This paper considers the problem of secret-key agreement with public discussion subject to a peak power constraint $A$ on the channel input. The optimal input distribution is proved to be discrete with finite support. The result is obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Marwen Zorgui , Zouheir Rezki , Basel Alomair , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider a transmitter and $K$ receivers, each of which shares a key variable with the transmitter. Through a noiseless broadcast channel, the transmitter wishes to send a common message $W$ securely to $N$ out of the $K$ receivers while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Hua Sun

A quantum key distribution network enables pairs of users to generate independent secret keys by leveraging the principles of quantum physics. For end-to-end secure communication, a user pair's secret key must remain secure against any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yiming Bian , Yichen Zhang , Song Yu , Zhengyu Li , Hong Guo

Quantum cryptography is a major ingredient of the future quantum internet that promises various secure communication tasks. Quantum conference key agreement (CKA) is an important cryptographic primitive of quantum cryptography, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Xiao-Yu Cao , Yu-shuo Lu , Zhao Li , Jie Gu , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

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

We study the generation of a secret key of maximum rate by a pair of terminals observing correlated sources and with the means to communicate over a noiseless public com- munication channel. Our main result establishes a structural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Himanshu Tyagi

In a sensor network, in practice, the communication among sensors is subject to:(1) errors or failures at random times; (3) costs; and(2) constraints since sensors and networks operate under scarce resources, such as power, data rate, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura

In secure summation, $K$ users, each holds an input, wish to compute the sum of the inputs at a server without revealing any information about {\em all the inputs} even if the server may collude with {\em an arbitrary subset of users}. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Hua Sun

We consider the estimation of a signal from the knowledge of its noisy linear random Gaussian projections. A few examples where this problem is relevant are compressed sensing, sparse superposition codes, and code division multiple access.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Jean Barbier , Nicolas Macris , Mohamad Dia , Florent Krzakala

As investigations on physical layer security evolve from point-to-point systems to multi-user scenarios, multi-user interference (MUI) is introduced and becomes an unavoidable issue. Different from treating MUI totally as noise in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Huiyun Xia , Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Xiaokang Zhou , Shuai Han , Cheng Li