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This paper investigates the impact of deploying the fluid antenna system (FAS) on the performance of covert communications. In particular, we focus on a scenario where a transmitter seeks to covertly communicate with a receiver, while a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Riku Jantti , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

The purpose of the covert communication system is to implement the communication process without causing third party perception. In order to achieve complete covert communication, two aspects of security issues need to be considered. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Zhongliang Yang , Yuting Hu , Yongfeng Huang , Yujin Zhang

Covert wireless communication aims to establish a reliable link while hiding the transmission from an adversary. In wireless settings, uncertainty plays a central role in this tradeoff: it can help mask the signal from a warden, but it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani

In this work, for the first time, we tackle channel estimation design with pilots in the context of covert wireless communication. Specifically, we consider Rayleigh fading for the communication channel from a transmitter to a receiver and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Tingzhen Xu , Linlin Sun , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu

The throughput benefits of random linear network codes have been studied extensively for wirelined and wireless erasure networks. It is often assumed that all nodes within a network perform coding operations. In energy-constrained systems,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Xiaomeng Shi , Muriel Medard , Daniel E. Lucani

Covert wireless communication can prevent an adversary from knowing the existence of user's transmission, thus provide stronger security protection. In AWGN channels, a square root law was obtained and the result shows that Alice can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma , Qiping Huang

Recent works have considered the ability of transmitter Alice to communicate reliably to receiver Bob without being detected by warden Willie. These works generally assume a standard discrete-time model. But the assumption of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ke Li , Don Towsley , Dennis Goeckel

A relay channel with orthogonal components that is affected by an interference signal that is noncausally available only at the source is studied. The interference signal has structure in that it is produced by another transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kagan Bakanoglu , Elza Erkip , Osvaldo Simeone , Sholomo Shamai

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a multi-access system where multiple users communicate to a legitimate receiver in presence of an external warden. Only a specific subset of the users, called covert users, needs their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

A MIMO secure two-hop wireless communication system is considered in this paper. In this model, there are no direct links between the source-destination and the source-eavesdropper. The problem is maximizing the secrecy capacity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In a multi-user wireless network equipped with multiple relay nodes, some relays are more intelligent than other relay nodes. The intelligent relays are able to gather channel state information, perform linear processing and forward signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zuleita Ho , Eduard Jorswieck

In wireless communication adversarial scenarios, signals are easily intercepted by non-cooperative parties, exposing the transmission of confidential information. This paper proposes a true-and-false (T/F) frequency multiplexing based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Zhisheng Yin , Nan Cheng , Mingjie Wang , Changle Li , Wei Xiang

The study of the fundamental limits of covert communications, where a transmitter Alice wants to send information to a desired recipient Bob without detection of that transmission by an attentive and capable warden Willie, has emerged…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Dennis Goeckel

We investigate large wireless networks subject to security constraints. In contrast to point-to-point, interference-limited communications considered in prior works, we propose active cooperative relaying based schemes. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

This paper focuses on the secure transmission of wireless-powered relay systems with imperfect eavesdropper channel state information (ECSI). For efficient energy transfer and information relaying, a novel two-phase protocol is proposed, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jingping Qiao , Haixia Zhang , Feng Zhao , Dongfeng Yuan

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access setting is considered, in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in two possible scenarios of unsecure environments: existence of an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

In cellular systems, confidentiality of uplink transmission with respect to eavesdropping terminals can be ensured by creating intentional inteference via scheduling of concurrent downlink transmissions. In this paper, this basic idea is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Petar Popovski , Osvaldo Simeone

We study two-way covert communication schemes, where information is transmitted by passively modulating a reflected signal back to the source. We consider optical systems, described by quantum bosonic channels. While broadband classical and…

We consider covert communication using a queuing timing channel in the presence of a warden. The covert message is encoded using the inter-arrival times of the packets, and the legitimate receiver and the warden observe the inter-departure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Pritam Mukherjee , Sennur Ulukus

Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou
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