Title :
Reverse edge cut-set bounds for secure network coding
Author :
Wentao Huang ; Ho, Tracey ; Langberg, Michael ; Kliewer, Joerg
Author_Institution :
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
fDate :
June 29 2014-July 4 2014
Abstract :
We consider the problem of secure communication over a network in the presence of wiretappers. We give a new cut-set bound on secrecy capacity which takes into account the contribution of both forward and backward edges crossing the cut, and the connectivity between their endpoints in the rest of the network. We show the bound is tight on a class of networks, which demonstrates that it is not possible to find a tighter bound by considering only cut-set edges and their connectivity.
Keywords :
network coding; telecommunication security; cut-set edges; reverse edge cut-set bounds; secrecy capacity; secure communication; secure network coding; wiretappers; Delays; Entropy; Mutual information; Network coding; Unicast; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory (ISIT), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2014.6874804