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Covert communication hides the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring reliable information decoding at the receiver, providing enhanced security in wireless communications. In this letter, covert communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is…

We analyze a two-receiver binary-input discrete memoryless broadcast channel, in which the transmitter communicates a common message simultaneously to both receivers and a covert message to only one of them. The unintended recipient of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

We examine a situation in which an information-carrying signal is sent from two sources to a common receiver. The radiation travels through free space in the presence of noise. The information resides in a relationship between the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Simmons , Sandip Pakvasa

Human sociality depends upon the benefits of mutual aid and extensive communication. However mutual aid is made difficult by the problems of coordinating diverse norms and preferences, and communication is harried by substantial ambiguity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-17 Paul E. Smaldino , Thomas J. Flamson , Richard McElreath

Low probability of detection (or covert) communication refers to the scenario where information must be sent reliably to a receiver, but with low probability of detection by an adversary. Recent works on the fundamental limits of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Nick Letzepis

A multiple-access channel is considered in which messages from one encoder are confidential. Confidential messages are to be transmitted with perfect secrecy, as measured by equivocation at the other encoder. The upper bounds and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ruoheng Liu , Ivana Maric , Roy D. Yates , Predrag Spasojevic

We revisit the distributed hypothesis testing (or hypothesis testing with communication constraints) problem from the viewpoint of privacy. Instead of observing the raw data directly, the transmitter observes a sanitized or randomized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Atefeh Gilani , Selma Belhadj Amor , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Harnessing a block-sparse prior to recover signals through underdetermined linear measurements has been extensively shown to allow exact recovery in conditions where classical compressed sensing would provably fail. We exploit this result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Urbashi Mitra

Security is one of the major concerns of modern communication systems. Users demand a secure communication environment that provides privacy to the people while they are sharing messages to anyone. Privacy is a prime concern nowadays. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Akm. B. Haque , Md. A. Bari , S. S. Arman , FT. Progga

Inspired by problems in Private Information Retrieval, we consider the setting where two users need to establish a communication protocol to transmit a secret without revealing it to external observers. This is a question of how large a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Olga Kuznetsova

A principal and $n\ge 2$ agents can launch a project if the principal proposes it and at least $k$ agents accept. Their individual payoffs from the project depend on an ex ante unknown state. The principal can conduct a test to learn about…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-06 Zhicheng Du , Yingkai Li , Boli Xu

Widely-deployed encryption-based security prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure undetectability of communication. However, covert, or low probability of detection/intercept (LPD/LPI) communication is crucial in many scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Network steganography and covert communication channels have been studied extensively in the past. However, prior works offer minimal practical use for their proposed techniques and are limited to specific use cases and network protocols.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sirus Shahini , Robert Ricci

A lower bound on the secrecy capacity of the wiretap channel with state information available causally at both the encoder and decoder is established. The lower bound is shown to be strictly larger than that for the noncausal case by Liu…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Yeow-Khiang Chia , Abbas El Gamal

We consider the situation in which a transmitter attempts to communicate reliably over a discrete memoryless channel while simultaneously ensuring covertness (low probability of detection) with respect to a warden, who observes the signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Matthieu R. Bloch

This paper studies the organization of communication between biased senders and a receiver. Senders can misreport their private information at a cost. Efficiency is achieved by clearing information asymmetries without incurring costs.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-04 Federico Vaccari

We study secure and undetectable communication in a world where governments can read all encrypted communications of citizens. We consider a world where the only permitted communication method is via a government-mandated encryption scheme,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Thibaut Horel , Sunoo Park , Silas Richelson , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

In many real-world scenarios, experts must convey complex information with limited message capacity. This paper explores how the availability of messages influences an expert's persuasive ability. We develop a geometric representation of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-05-09 Yunus C. Aybas , Eray Turkel

A security measure called effective security is defined that includes strong secrecy and stealth communication. Effective secrecy ensures that a message cannot be deciphered and that the presence of meaningful communication is hidden. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Jie Hou , Gerhard Kramer