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Information Theoretic Security for Broadcasting of Two Encrypted Sources under Side-Channel Attacks
We consider the secure communication problem for broadcasting of two
encrypted sources. The sender wishes to broadcast two secret messages via two
common key cryptosystems. We assume that the adversary can use the
side-channel, where the side information on common keys can be obtained via the
rate constraint noiseless channel. To solve this problem we formulate the post
encryption coding system. On the information leakage on two secrete messages to
the adversary, we provide an explicit sufficient condition to attain the
exponential decay of this quantity for large block lengths of encrypted
sources.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures. In the current version we we have corrected
errors in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1801.02563, arXiv:1801.0492
Content Delivery in Erasure Broadcast Channels with Cache and Feedback
We study a content delivery problem in a K-user erasure broadcast channel
such that a content providing server wishes to deliver requested files to
users, each equipped with a cache of a finite memory. Assuming that the
transmitter has state feedback and user caches can be filled during off-peak
hours reliably by the decentralized content placement, we characterize the
achievable rate region as a function of the memory sizes and the erasure
probabilities. The proposed delivery scheme, based on the broadcasting scheme
by Wang and Gatzianas et al., exploits the receiver side information
established during the placement phase. Our results can be extended to
centralized content placement as well as multi-antenna broadcast channels with
state feedback.Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures. A short version has been submitted to ISIT 201
Universal Protocols for Information Dissemination Using Emergent Signals
We consider a population of agents which communicate with each other in a
decentralized manner, through random pairwise interactions. One or more agents
in the population may act as authoritative sources of information, and the
objective of the remaining agents is to obtain information from or about these
source agents. We study two basic tasks: broadcasting, in which the agents are
to learn the bit-state of an authoritative source which is present in the
population, and source detection, in which the agents are required to decide if
at least one source agent is present in the population or not.We focus on
designing protocols which meet two natural conditions: (1) universality, i.e.,
independence of population size, and (2) rapid convergence to a correct global
state after a reconfiguration, such as a change in the state of a source agent.
Our main positive result is to show that both of these constraints can be met.
For both the broadcasting problem and the source detection problem, we obtain
solutions with a convergence time of rounds, w.h.p., from any
starting configuration. The solution to broadcasting is exact, which means that
all agents reach the state broadcast by the source, while the solution to
source detection admits one-sided error on a -fraction of the
population (which is unavoidable for this problem). Both protocols are easy to
implement in practice and have a compact formulation.Our protocols exploit the
properties of self-organizing oscillatory dynamics. On the hardness side, our
main structural insight is to prove that any protocol which meets the
constraints of universality and of rapid convergence after reconfiguration must
display a form of non-stationary behavior (of which oscillatory dynamics are an
example). We also observe that the periodicity of the oscillatory behavior of
the protocol, when present, must necessarily depend on the number ^\\# X of
source agents present in the population. For instance, our protocols inherently
rely on the emergence of a signal passing through the population, whose period
is \Theta(\log \frac{n}{^\\# X}) rounds for most starting configurations. The
design of clocks with tunable frequency may be of independent interest, notably
in modeling biological networks
Prediction of performance of the DVB-SH system relying on mutual information
DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Handled) is a broadcasting standard dedicated to hybrid broadcasting systems combining a satellite and a terrestrial part. On the satellite part, dedicated interleaving and time slicing mechanisms are proposed to mitigate the effects of Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) channel, based on a convolutional interleaver. Depending on the parameters of this interleaver, this mechanism enables to split in time a codeword on duration from 100 ms to about 30s. This mechanism signi?cantly improves the error recovery performance of the code but in literature, exact evaluation at system level of this improvement is missing. The objective of this paper is to propose a prediction method compatible with fast simulations, to quantitatively evaluate the system performance in terms of Packet Error Rate (PER). The main dif?culty is to evaluate the decoding probability of a codeword submitted to several levels of attenuation. The method we propose consists in using as metric the Mutual Information (MI) between coded bit at the emitter side and the received symbol. It is shown that, by averaging the MI over the codeword and by using the decoding performance function g such that PER=g(MI)determined on the Gaussian channel, we can signi?cantly improve the precision of the prediction compared to the two other methods based on SNR and Bit Error Rate (BER). We evaluated these methods on three arti?cial channels where each codeword is transmitted with three or four different levels of attenuations. The prediction error of the SNR-based (resp. the input BER-based) method varies from 0.5 to 1.7 dB (resp. from 0.7 to 1.2 dB) instead of the MI-based method achieves a precision in the order of 0.1 dB in the three cases. We then evaluate this method on real LMS channels with various DVB-SH interleavers and show that the instantaneous PER can also be predicted with high accuracy
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