2021/05/21 by Naruki Shinohara, Shinohara, Naruki, Hideki Yagi +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · #DNA and Biological Computing #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Wireless Communication Security Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.10135
openalex publication_date 2021/05/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Privacy-constrained source coding problems have become increasingly important recently, and the utility-privacy trade-off has been investigated for various systems. As pioneering work, Yamamoto (1983) found theoretical limits of the coding rate, privacy and utility in two cases; (i) both public and private information is encoded and (ii) only public information is encoded. However, the theoretical limit has not been characterized in a more general case; (iii) encoded messages consist of public information and a part of private information. Then in this paper, we characterize the trade-off relation in case (iii) using rate-distortion theory. The obtained expression of the achievable region is a "unified expression" because it includes the ones in cases (i) and (ii) as special cases. The numerical results also demonstrate that neither case (i) nor (ii) are the best cases, and it is important to select the encoded information adequately in case (iii).