Parastoo Sadeghi

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∙ 05/11/2023

Preferential Pliable Index Coding

We propose and study a variant of pliable index coding (PICOD) where rec...

0 Daniel Byrne, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/24/2023

On the connection between the ABS perturbation methodology and differential privacy

This paper explores analytical connections between the perturbation meth...

0 Parastoo Sadeghi, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/26/2022

Age of Information in Downlink Systems: Broadcast or Distributed Transmission?

We analytically decide whether the broadcast transmission scheme or the ...

0 Zhifeng Tang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/24/2022

Explaining epsilon in differential privacy through the lens of information theory

The study of leakage measures for privacy has been a subject of intensiv...

0 Natasha Fernandes, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/14/2022

Network-Controlled Physical-Layer Security: Enhancing Secrecy Through Friendly Jamming

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdr...

0 Sayed Amir Hoseini, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/25/2022

On the Optimality of Linear Index Coding over the Fields with Characteristic Three

It has been known that the insufficiency of linear coding in achieving t...

0 Arman Sharififar, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/04/2021

The Age of Information of Short-Packet Communications: Joint or Distributed Encoding?

In this paper, we analyze the impact of different encoding schemes on th...

0 Zhifeng Tang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/13/2021

Offset-Symmetric Gaussians for Differential Privacy

The Gaussian distribution is widely used in mechanism design for differe...

0 Parastoo Sadeghi, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/10/2021

Enhancing Utility in the Watchdog Privacy Mechanism

This paper is concerned with enhancing data utility in the privacy watch...

0 Mohammad Amin Zarrabian, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/15/2021

On Converse Results for Secure Index Coding

In this work, we study the secure index coding problem where there are s...

0 Yucheng Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/09/2021

Differential Privacy for Binary Functions via Randomized Graph Colorings

We present a framework for designing differentially private (DP) mechani...

0 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/03/2021

Information Leakage in Zero-Error Source Coding: A Graph-Theoretic Perspective

We study the information leakage to a guessing adversary in zero-error s...

0 Yucheng Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/02/2021

Broadcast Rate Requires Nonlinear Coding in a Unicast Index Coding Instance of Size 36

Insufficiency of linear coding for the network coding problem was first ...

0 Arman Sharififar, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/26/2021

α-Information-theoretic Privacy Watchdog and Optimal Privatization Scheme

This paper proposes an α-lift measure for data privacy and determines th...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/22/2021

Update-based Maximum Column Distance Coding Scheme for Index Coding Problem

In this paper, we propose a new scalar linear coding scheme for the inde...

0 Arman Sharififar, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/19/2020

On Properties and Optimization of Information-theoretic Privacy Watchdog

We study the problem of privacy preservation in data sharing, where S is...

0 Parastoo Sadeghi, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/21/2020

Low Influence, Utility, and Independence in Differential Privacy: A Curious Case of 3 2

We study the relationship between randomized low influence functions and...

0 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/18/2020

Differentially Private Mechanisms for Count Queries

In this paper, we consider the problem of responding to a count query (o...

0 Parastoo Sadeghi, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/05/2020

Independent User Partition Multicast Scheme for the Groupcast Index Coding Problem

The groupcast index coding (GIC) problem is a generalization of the inde...

0 Arman Sharififar, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/21/2020

Secure Index Coding with Security Constraints on Receivers

Index coding is concerned with efficient broadcast of a set of messages ...

0 Yucheng Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/19/2020

Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in a Guessing Framework Inspired by Index Coding

This paper studies the tradeoff in privacy and utility in a single-trial...

0 Yucheng Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/26/2019

Part II: A Practical Approach for Successive Omniscience

In Part I, we studied the communication for omniscience (CO) problem and...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/26/2019

Part I: Improving Computational Efficiency of Communication for Omniscience

Communication for omniscience (CO) refers to the problem where the users...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/26/2019

Improved Lower Bounds for Pliable Index Coding using Absent Receivers

This paper studies pliable index coding, in which a sender broadcasts in...

0 Lawrence Ong, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/03/2019

Improving Computational Efficiency of Communication for Omniscience and Successive Omniscience

For a group of users in V where everyone observes a component of a discr...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/11/2019

Attaining Fairness in Communication for Omniscience

This paper studies how to attain fairness in communication for omniscien...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/26/2019

Generalized Alignment Chain: Improved Converse Results for Index Coding

In this work, we study the information theoretic converse for the index ...

0 Yucheng Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/20/2019

A Submodularity-based Agglomerative Clustering Algorithm for the Privacy Funnel

For the privacy funnel (PF) problem, we propose an efficient iterative a...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/10/2018

On the Capacity Region for Secure Index Coding

We study the index coding problem in the presence of an eavesdropper, wh...

0 Yuxin Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/04/2018

Fairness in Multiterminal Data Compression: A Splitting Method for The Egalitarian Solution

This paper proposes a novel splitting (SPLIT) algorithm to achieve fairn...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/05/2018

Fairness in Multiterminal Data Compression: Decomposition of Shapley Value

We consider the problem of how to determine a fair source coding rate al...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/05/2018

Distributed Data Compression in Sensor Clusters: A Maximum Independent Flow Approach

Let a cluster (network) of sensors be connected by the communication lin...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/08/2018

On the Packet Decoding Delay of Linear Network Coded Wireless Broadcast

We apply linear network coding (LNC) to broadcast a block of data packet...

0 Mingchao Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/27/2018

Capacity Theorems for Distributed Index Coding

In index coding, a server broadcasts multiple messages to their respecti...

0 Yucheng Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/21/2015

On Monotonicity of the Optimal Transmission Policy in Cross-layer Adaptive m-QAM Modulation

This paper considers a cross-layer adaptive modulation system that is mo...

0 Ni Ding, et al. ∙

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