Surveys the research dating back to the 1970s which forms the basis of applying this technique in modern communication systems. It provides an overview of how information theoretic approaches are developed to achieve secrecy for a basic wire-tap channel model and for its extensions to multiuser networks.

Learn how information theoretic approaches can inform the design of more secure information systems and networks with this expert guide. Covering theoretical models, analytical results, and the state of the art in research, it will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners working in communications engineering.

This complete guide to physical-layer security presents the theoretical foundations, practical implementation, challenges and benefits of a groundbreaking new model for secure communication. Using a bottom-up approach from the link level all the way to end-to-end architectures, it provides essential practical tools that enable graduate students, industry professionals and researchers to build more secure systems by exploiting the noise inherent to communications channels. The book begins with a self-contained explanation of the information-theoretic limits of secure communications at the physical layer. It then goes on to develop practical coding schemes, building on the theoretical insights and enabling readers to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the design of physical layer security schemes. Finally, applications to multi-user communications and network coding are also included.

Understand key information-theoretic principles that underpin the design of next-generation cellular systems with this invaluable resource. This book is the perfect tool for researchers and graduate students in the field of information theory and wireless communications, as well as for practitioners in the telecommunications industry.

Information Theory: Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems presents mathematical models that involve independent random variables with finite range. This three-chapter text specifically describes the characteristic phenomena of information theory. Chapter 1 deals with information measures in simple coding problems, with emphasis on some formal properties of Shannon's information and the non-block source coding. Chapter 2 describes the properties and practical aspects of the two-terminal systems. This chapter also examines the noisy channel coding problem, the computation of channel capacity, and the arbitrarily varying channels. Chapter 3 looks into the theory and practicality of multi-terminal systems. This book is intended primarily for graduate students and research workers in mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science.

Nigel Smartâ¬"s Cryptography provides the rigorous detail required for advanced cryptographic studies, yet approaches the subject matter in an accessible style in order to gently guide new students through difficult mathematical topics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, held in Calgary, Canada, in August 2008. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. There were nine invited speeches to the conference. The topics covered are secure and reliable communication; quantum information and communication; networks and devices; multiparty computation; information hiding and tracing; coding theory and security; quantum computation; foundation; and encryption.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings fo the 9th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2016, held in Tacoma, WA, USA, in August 2016. The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They are organized around the following topics: secret sharing; quantum cryptography; visual cryptography; cryptographic protocols; entropy, extractors and privacy.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, held in Shizuoka, Japan, in December 2009. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on leakage resilient cryptography, quantum cryptography and indistinguishability, connection to computational security, secret sharing, key agreement from common randomness, random graph and group testing, reliable data transmission and computation, as well as fingerprint and watermarking.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2007, held in Madrid, Spain, in May 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. There were one invited keynote speech and 3 invited talks to the conference. The topics covered are authentication, group cryptography, private and reliable message transmission, secret sharing, and applications of information theory.