Secrecy measures for broadcast channels with receiver side information: Joint vs individual

Ahmed S. Mansour, Rafael F. Schaefer, Holger Boche

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Abstract

We study the transmission of a common message and three confidential messages over a broadcast channel with two legitimate receivers and an eavesdropper. Each legitimate receiver is interested in decoding two of the three confidential messages, while having the third one as side information. In order to measure the ignorance of the eavesdropper about the confidential messages, we investigate two different secrecy criteria: joint secrecy and individual secrecy. For both criteria, we provide a general achievable rate region. We establish both the joint and individual secrecy capacity if the two legitimate receivers are less noisy than the eavesdropper. We further investigate the scenario where the eavesdropper is less noisy than the two legitimate receivers. It is known that the joint secrecy constraints can not be fulfilled under this scenario, however, we manage to establish a non vanishing capacity region for the individual secrecy case.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages426-430
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479959990
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2014
Event2014 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2014 - Hobart, Australia
Duration: 2 Nov 20145 Nov 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2014
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityHobart
Period2/11/145/11/14

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