Title
On The Impact Of Network-State Knowledge On The Feasibility Of Secrecy
Abstract
In this paper, the impact of network-state knowledge is studied in the context of decentralized active non-colluding eavesdropping. The main contribution is a formal proof of a paradoxical effect that might appear when increasing the available knowledge at each of the network components. Using a broadcast channel similar to the time-division downlink of a single-cell cellular system, it is shown that providing more knowledge to both the transmitter and the receivers negatively affects their performance. Eavesdroppers become more conservative in their attacks, which makes them harmless in terms of information leakage, whereas the transmitter becomes more careful and less willing to transmit, which reduces the expected secrecy capacity of this channel. Finally, it is shown that this counter-intuitive effect vanishes in the high SNR regime, in which the system becomes resilient to active attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620768
2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION THEORY PROCEEDINGS (ISIT)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
games,knowledge engineering,radio transmitters,information theory,transmitters,transmitter,signal to noise ratio
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samir Medina Perlaza172248.69
Arsenia Chorti215720.49
H. V. Poor3254111951.66
Zhu Han411215760.71