On the Continuity of the Secrecy Capacity of Compound and Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2531-2546

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

arbitrarily varying channel (AVC); compound channel; continuity; secrecy capacity; Wiretap channel

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; SECURE COMMUNICATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARBITRARILY VARYING CHANNEL (AVC); COMPOUND CHANNEL; CONTINUITY; SECRECY CAPACITY; WIRE-TAP CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 84960339869     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2465937     Document Type: Article

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