Universal fingerprinting: Capacity and random-coding exponents

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Abstract

Bounds on fingerprinting capacity have been derived in recent literature. In this paper we present an exact capacity formula and a universal fingerprinting scheme. Our problem setup unifies the signaldistortion and Boneh-Shaw formulations of fingerprinting. The proposed scheme has four useful properties: (1) the receiver does not need to know the coalition size and collusion channel; (2) a tunable parameter Δ trades off false-positive and false-negative error exponents; (3) the receiver provides a reliability metric for its decision; and (4) the decoder is capacity-achieving when the false-positive exponent Δ tends to zero. The new random coding scheme uses a "time-sharing" randomized sequence and produces conditionally constant-composition fingerprints. The decoder is a minimum penalized equivocation decoder, where the penalty term is proportional to coalition size.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2008
Pages220-224
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2008 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: Jul 6 2008Jul 11 2008

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2157-8101

Other

Other2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2008
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period7/6/087/11/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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