State Amplification Subject to Masking Constraints

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information theory Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 6233 - 6250
• Main Authors: Koyluoglu, Onur Ozan, Soundararajan, Rajiv, Vishwanath, Sriram
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Amplification; Channels; Coding; Cognitive radio; Communication channels; Data transmission; Degradation; Electronic mail; Encoding; Gaussian; Leakage; Leaking of information; Masking; Normal distribution; Receivers; Security; state amplification; State dependent channels; state masking; Transmitters; Zinc

This paper considers a state dependent broadcast channel with one transmitter, Alice, and two receivers, Bob and Eve. The problem is to effectively convey ("amplify") the channel state sequence to Bob while "masking" it from Eve. The extent to which the state sequence cannot be m...