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When the Hammer Meets the Nail: Multi-Server PIR for Database-Driven CRN with Location Privacy Assurance
We show that it is possible to achieve information theoretic location privacy
for secondary users (SUs) in database-driven cognitive radio networks (CRNs)
with an end-to-end delay less than a second, which is significantly better than
that of the existing alternatives offering only a computational privacy. This
is achieved based on a keen observation that, by the requirement of Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), all certified spectrum databases synchronize
their records. Hence, the same copy of spectrum database is available through
multiple (distinct) providers. We harness the synergy between multi-server
private information retrieval (PIR) and database- driven CRN architecture to
offer an optimal level of privacy with high efficiency by exploiting this
observation. We demonstrated, analytically and experimentally with deployments
on actual cloud systems that, our adaptations of multi-server PIR outperform
that of the (currently) fastest single-server PIR by a magnitude of times with
information theoretic security, collusion resiliency, and fault-tolerance
features. Our analysis indicates that multi-server PIR is an ideal
cryptographic tool to provide location privacy in database-driven CRNs, in
which the requirement of replicated databases is a natural part of the system
architecture, and therefore SUs can enjoy all advantages of multi-server PIR
without any additional architectural and deployment costs.Comment: 10 pages, double colum
High-order harmonic generation from Rydberg states at fixed Keldysh parameter
Because the commonly adopted viewpoint that the Keldysh parameter
determines the dynamical regime in strong field physics has long been
demonstrated to be misleading, one can ask what happens as relevant physical
parameters, such as laser intensity and frequency, are varied while is
kept fixed. We present results from our one- and fully three-dimensional
quantum simulations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from various bound
states of hydrogen with up to 40, where the laser intensities and the
frequencies are scaled from those for in order to maintain a fixed
Keldysh parameter for all . We find that as we increase
while keeping fixed, the position of the cut-off scales in well
defined manner. Moreover, a secondary plateau forms with a new cut-off,
splitting the HHG plateau into two regions. First of these sub-plateaus is
composed of lower harmonics, and has a higher yield than the second one. The
latter extends up to the semiclassical cut-off. We find that this
structure is universal, and the HHG spectra look the same for all
when plotted as a function of the scaled harmonic order. We investigate the
-, - and momentum distributions to elucidate the physical mechanism
leading to this universal structure
Phase-dependent interference fringes in the wavelength scaling of harmonic efficiency
We describe phase-dependent wavelength scaling of high-order harmonic
generation efficiency driven by ultra-short laser fields in the mid-infrared.
We employ both numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger
equation and the Strong Field Approximation to analyze the fine-scale
oscillations in the harmonic yield in the context of channel-closing effects.
We show, by varying the carrier-envelope phase, that the amplitude of these
oscillations depend strongly on the number of returning electron trajectories.
Furthermore, the peak positions of the oscillations vary significantly as a
function of the carrier-envelope phase. Owing to its practical applications, we
also study the wavelength dependence of harmonic yield in the "single-cycle"
limit, and observe a smooth variation in the wavelength scaling originating
from the vanishing fine-scale oscillations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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