Wiretap Channels: Nonasymptotic Fundamental Limits

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Contributors

  • Wei Yang - , Qualcomm Incorporated (Author)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , Technical University of Berlin (Author)
  • H. Vincent Poor - , Princeton University (Author)

Abstract

This paper investigates the maximal secret communication rate over a wiretap channel subject to reliability and secrecy constraints at a given blocklength. New achievability and converse bounds are derived, which are uniformly tighter than existing bounds, and lead to the tightest bounds on the second-order coding rate for discrete memoryless and Gaussian wiretap channels. The exact second-order coding rate is established for semi-deterministic wiretap channels, which characterizes the optimal tradeoff between reliability and secrecy in the finite-blocklength regime. Underlying our achievability bounds are two new privacy amplification results, which not only refine the classic privacy amplification results, but also achieve secrecy under the stronger semantic-security metric.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number8665906
Pages (from-to)4069-4093
Number of pages25
JournalIEEE transactions on information theory
Volume65
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

Keywords

  • Finite blocklength, information-theoretic security, privacy amplification, semantic security, wiretap channel