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Covert Capacity of Degraded Broadcast Channels

Information Theory 2026-05-12 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We derive the capacity region of the degraded broadcast channel (DBC) subject to the constraint that the communication is not detected by an adversary, the Warden. Our capacity result is in a computable form and numerical results show that time-sharing is suboptimal in general, and improved rates can be obtained through superposition coding.

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@article{arxiv.2605.09353,
  title  = {Covert Capacity of Degraded Broadcast Channels},
  author = {Yossef Steinberg and Michèle Wigger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09353},
  year   = {2026}
}