Information-theoretic Security in Practice: Multipath Transmission and Quantum Networks - Softcover

Rass, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838120167 ISBN 13: 9783838120164

Verlag: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Information-theoretic secrecy is the strongest known security notion. Despite perfect secrecy being theoretically well-understood, one faces substantial practical difficulties when attempting to build communication systems providing this highest level of security. We consider two major approaches to perfectly secure communication: multipath transmission and quantum key distribution. The latter has seen a promising evolution over the last decades, culminating in the recent presentations of the world’s first real-life quantum networks. This book advocates a combination of the two techniques in order to complement each other and to overcome existing limitations in both worlds. Getting started with a graph-theoretic groundwork for multipath transmission networks, we continue by deriving results about multipath channel coding and interactive error correction. Based on game-theory, we introduce a general quantitative security valuation enjoying broad applicability. For a given network, the security measure indicates the quality of protection as well as it permits security infrastructure optimization. Both topics receive attention in dedicated chapters.

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Stefan Rass graduated from the Alpen-Adria UniversitaetKlagenfurt in 2005 with a double degree in mathematics andcomputer science. He gained a PhD degree in mathematics in 2009.His research interests include general system security,complexity- and decision-theory. He is with the system securityresearch group the University in Klagenfurt.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3838120167
• ISBN 13: 9783838120164
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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