Secure Communication under Channel Uncertainty and Adversarial Attacks

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1796-1813

  Schaefer, Rafael F ^a   Boche, Holger ^b   Poor, H Vincent ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily varying channel; common randomness; compound channel; continuity; robustness; secrecy capacity; wiretap channel

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; NETWORK LAYERS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SECURE COMMUNICATION;

ARBITRARILY VARYING CHANNEL; COMMON RANDOMNESS; COMPOUND CHANNEL; CONTINUITY; SECRECY CAPACITY; WIRE-TAP CHANNELS;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 84959570869     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2459652     Document Type: Article

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