Generalizing Multiple Access Wiretap and Wiretap II Channel Models: Achievable Rates and Cost of Strong Secrecy

DOI10.1109/TIT.2019.2908832zbMATH Open1432.94108arXiv1802.02131OpenAlexW2963966831WikidataQ128123905 ScholiaQ128123905MaRDI QIDQ5224136FDOQ5224136

Mohamed Nafea, Aylin Yener

Publication date: 19 July 2019

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, new two-user multiple access wiretap channel models are studied. First, the multiple access wiretap channel II with a discrete memoryless main channel, under three different wiretapping scenarios, is introduced. The wiretapper, as in the classical wiretap channel II model, chooses a fixed-length subset of the channel uses on which she obtains noise-free observations of one of the codewords, a superposition of the two codewords, or each of the two codewords. These thus extend the recently examined wiretap channel II with a noisy main channel to a multiple access setting with a variety of attack models for the wiretapper. Next, a new multiple access wiretap channel model, which further generalizes the multiple access wiretap channel II under the third wiretapping scenario, i.e., that which features the strongest adversarial model, is proposed. In this model, the wiretapper, besides choosing a subset of the channel uses to noiselessly observe the transmitted codeword symbols of both users, observes the remainder of the two codewords through a discrete memoryless multiple access channel. Achievable strong secrecy rate regions for all the proposed models are derived. Achievability is established by solving dual multi-terminal secret key agreement problems in the source model, and converting the solution to the original channel models using probability distribution approximation arguments. The derived achievable rate regions quantify the secrecy cost due to the additional capabilities of the wiretapper with respect to the previous multiple access wiretap models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02131

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40) Authentication, digital signatures and secret sharing (94A62)

Cited In (4)

• On message protection in cryptosystems modelled as the generalized wire-tap channel II
• The Wiretap Channel With Generalized Feedback: Secure Communication and Key Generation
• Secrecy Generation for Multiaccess Channel Models
• A New Wiretap Channel Model and Its Strong Secrecy Capacity

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