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This paper studies covert communication over channels with ADSI when the state is available either non-causally or causally at the transmitter. Covert communication refers to reliable communication between a transmitter and a receiver while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Hassan ZivariFard , Xiaodong Wang

We propose a covert communication protocol for the spread-spectrum multiple random access with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. No existing paper has studied covert communication for the random access channel. Our protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

Covert communication conceals the existence of the transmission from a watchful adversary. We consider the fundamental limits for covert communications via packet insertion over packet channels whose packet timings are governed by a renewal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

In this paper, we investigate covert communication over millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. In particular, a dual-beam mmWave transmitter, comprised of two independent antenna arrays, attempts to reliably communicate to a receiver Bob…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

We investigate the physical-layer security of indoor hybrid parallel power-line/wireless orthogonal-frequency division-multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems. We propose an artificial-noise (AN) aided scheme to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Ahmed El Shafie , Mohamed F. Marzban , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel, where the transmitter has causal or noncausal knowledge of the channel states. Here, "covert" means that a warden on the channel should observe similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ligong Wang , Ashish Khisti , Gregory W. Wornell

Covert communication conceals transmission of messages from Alice to Bob out of a watchful adversary, Willie, who tries to determine if a transmission took place or not. While covert communication in a basic, vanilla setting where all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

In this paper, we investigate covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a legitimate transmitter (Alice) applies NOMA for downlink and uplink transmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Zan Li , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

In this paper, we consider a scenario of covert communication aided by multiple friendly interference nodes. The objective is to conceal the legitimate communication link under the surveillance of a warden. The main content is as follows:…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-10 Xuyang Zhao. Wei Guo , Yongchao Wang

In this paper, we consider a common unicast beamforming network where Alice utilizes the communication to Carol as a cover and covertly transmits a message to Bob without being recognized by Willie. We investigate the beamformer design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Shuai Ma , Yunqi Zhang , Hang Li , Songtao Lu , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Sha Zhang , Shiyin Li

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel when the channel state is available either non-causally, causally, or strictly causally, either at the transmitter alone or at both transmitter and receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hassan ZivariFard , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aria Nosratinia

We investigate the physical layer security of wireless single-input single-output orthogonal-division multiplexing (OFDM) when a transmitter, which we refer to as Alice, sends her information to a receiver, which we refer to as Bob, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mohamed F. Marzban , Ahmed El Shafie , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Covert communication hides the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring reliable information decoding at the receiver, providing enhanced security in wireless communications. In this letter, covert communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

Covert communication aims to shield the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, for the first time we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we consider the issue of covert communications with random access protocol. We consider that the legitimate user Bob has no priori knowledge about packet arrival time and thus employs data-aided frame detection based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Weile Zhang , Nan Zhao , Shun Zhang , F. Richard Yu

We consider the problem of secure communication with multi-antenna transmission in fading channels. The transmitter simultaneously transmits an information bearing signal to the intended receiver and artificial noise to the eavesdroppers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

Low probability of detection (LPD) communication has recently emerged as a new transmission technology to address privacy and security in wireless networks. Recent studies have established the fundamental limits of LPD communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Jinsong Hu , Stephen V. Hanly

Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates covert data transmission within a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over-the-air computation (AirComp) network, where sensors transmit data to the access point (AP) while guaranteeing covertness to the warden…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Quanzhong Li , Jinhong Yuan

Low probability of detection (LPD) has recently emerged as a means to enhance the privacy and security of wireless networks. Unlike existing wireless security techniques, LPD measures aim to conceal the entire existence of wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Sivaram Krishnan , Jihong Park , Subhash Sagar , Gregory Sherman , Benjamin Campbell , Jinho Choi