Title :
Joint and individual secrecy in broadcast channels with receiver side information
Author :
Mansour, Ahmed S. ; Schaefer, Rafael F. ; Boche, Holger
Author_Institution :
Lehrstuhl fur Theor. Informationstechnik, Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
We study secure communication in which two confidential messages are transmitted over a broadcast channel to two legitimate receivers, while keeping an eavesdropper ignorant. Each legitimate receiver is interested in decoding one confidential message, while having the other one as side information. In order to measure the secrecy of the communication, we investigate two different secrecy criteria: joint secrecy and individual secrecy. For both criteria, we provide an achievable rate region and a matching multi-letter outer bound presenting a multi-letter description for the capacity region. We further investigate the class of more capable channels and provide a single-letter converse establishing the secrecy capacity region, not only for more capable channels but less noisy and degraded channels as well. Our results indicate that the secrecy capacity for individual secrecy is higher than the one for joint secrecy, as one message can be used as a secret key for the other one.
Keywords :
broadcast channels; decoding; radio receivers; telecommunication security; broadcast channels; confidential messages; degraded channels; eavesdropper; individual secrecy; joint secrecy; multiletter description; multiletter outer bound; receiver side information; secrecy capacity region; secure communication; Conferences; Decoding; Joints; Random variables; Receivers; Wireless communication; Zinc;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2014 IEEE 15th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
DOI :
10.1109/SPAWC.2014.6941770