Title :
Secrecy measures for broadcast channels with receiver side information: Joint vs individual
Author :
Mansour, Ahmed S. ; Schaefer, Rafael F. ; Boche, Holger
Author_Institution :
Lehrstuhl fur Theor. Informationstechnik, Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
We study the transmission of a common message and three confidential messages over a broadcast channel with two legitimate receivers and an eavesdropper. Each legitimate receiver is interested in decoding two of the three confidential messages, while having the third one as side information. In order to measure the ignorance of the eavesdropper about the confidential messages, we investigate two different secrecy criteria: joint secrecy and individual secrecy. For both criteria, we provide a general achievable rate region. We establish both the joint and individual secrecy capacity if the two legitimate receivers are less noisy than the eavesdropper. We further investigate the scenario where the eavesdropper is less noisy than the two legitimate receivers. It is known that the joint secrecy constraints can not be fulfilled under this scenario, however, we manage to establish a non vanishing capacity region for the individual secrecy case.
Keywords :
broadcast channels; radio receivers; telecommunication security; broadcast channels; confidential messages; individual secrecy; joint secrecy; receiver side information; Decoding; Encoding; Joints; Markov processes; Noise measurement; Receivers; Reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hobart, TAS
DOI :
10.1109/ITW.2014.6970867