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A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma and Applications

Information Theory 2016-11-17 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Wyner's soft-covering lemma is a valuable tool for achievability proofs of information theoretic security, resolvability, channel synthesis, and source coding. The result herein sharpens the claim of soft-covering by moving away from an expected value analysis. Instead, a random codebook is shown to achieve the soft-covering phenomenon with high probability. The probability of failure is doubly-exponentially small in the block-length, enabling more powerful applications through the union bound.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01602,
  title  = {A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma and Applications},
  author = {Paul Cuff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01602},
  year   = {2016}
}

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IEEE CNS 2015, 2nd Workshop on Physical-layer Methods for Wireless Security, 4 pages

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