Title :
Secure lossy transmission of vector Gaussian sources
Author :
Ekrem, Ersen ; Ulukus, Sennur
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
fDate :
July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011
Abstract :
We study the secure lossy transmission of a Gaussian vector source to a legitimate user in the presence of an eaves-dropper, where both the legitimate user and the eavesdropper have Gaussian vector side information. The transmitter describes the source to the legitimate user in a way that the legitimate user can reconstruct the source within a certain distortion while the eavesdropper is kept ignorant of the source as much as possible. We obtain an outer bound for the rate, equivocation and distortion region of this secure lossy transmission problem. This outer bound is tight when the transmission rate constraint is removed. In other words, we obtain the maximum equivocation at the eavesdropper when the legitimate user needs to reconstruct the source within a fixed distortion level while there is no constraint on the transmission rate.
Keywords :
distortion; source coding; Gaussian vector side information; outer bound; secure lossy source coding problem; secure lossy transmission problem; transmission rate constraint; vector Gaussian sources; Covariance matrix; Markov processes; Mutual information; Optimization; Rate distortion theory; Source coding; Transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
St. Petersburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0596-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-8095
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2011.6034194