CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES
Friday, September 7, 2:30 pm
Carleton University, 4359 ME
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF INFORMATION-THEORETIC SECRECY
Jean-Yves Chouinard
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Laval University
Topic Overview:
Wireless channels and networks are particularly vulnerable to attacks and threats. This presentation introduces information-theoretical channel models and presents secure coding methods to prevent information leaks while ensuring reliable communication between legitimate parties.
Summary:
Since its introduction by Shannon, the ubiquitous principles of information theory have been successfully applied to a large variety of scientific domains including communications, error control coding, cryptography, source coding, mathematics, physics, biology, etc. In this presentation, applications of information theory to practical problems of secrecy over wireless channels and networks will be presented. First, the context of secure and robust communications over physical wireless channels will be exposed. This will be followed by an overview of the relevant principles of information theory leading to the definition of information-theoretic measures in wiretap channels. Channel coding methods will be presented as means to protect the confidentiality of information transmitted over channels vulnerable to passive and active threats.
Biography:
Jean-Yves Chouinard is a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Laval University, Canada. From 1988 to 2002, he was a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa. He is the author/co-author of some 200 journal, conference papers and technical reports. He is co-author of book chapters on software reconfigurable MIMO wireless communication systems and on OFDM-based mobile broadcasting as well as co-editor of a book on information theory. He has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. His research interests are secure and reliable communications, information theory and applications, and signal processing for radar systems.