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An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

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

We exploit both covert communication and friendly jamming to propose a friendly jamming-assisted covert communication and use it to doubly secure a large-scale device-to-device (D2D) network against eavesdroppers (i.e., wardens). The D2D…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Shaohan Feng , Xiao Lu , Sumei Sun , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

WiFi communication should be possible only between devices inside the same network. However, we find that all existing WiFi devices send back acknowledgments (ACK) to even fake packets received from unauthorized WiFi devices outside of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ali Abedi , Haofan Lu , Alex Chen , Charlie Liu , Omid Abari

Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium, wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping. This paper describes how eavesdropping can potentially be defeated by exploiting the superposition nature of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-02 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

Accurate detection of human presence in indoor environments is important for various applications, such as energy management and security. In this paper, we propose a novel system for human presence detection using the channel state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Li-Hsiang Shen , An-Hung Hsiao , Kuan-I Lu , Kai-Ten Feng

In wiretap model of secure communication the goal is to provide (asymptotic) perfect secrecy and reliable communication over a noisy channel that is eavesdropped by an adversary with unlimited computational power. This goal is achieved by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Pengwei Wang , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

We introduce a model for mobile, multi-agent information transfer that increases the communication covertness through a protocol which also increases the information transfer delay. Covertness is achieved in the presence of a warden who has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Pei Peng , Nikolas Melissaris , Emina Soljanin , Bill Lee , Huafeng Fan , Anton Maliev

Secrecy transmission is investigated for a cooperative jamming scheme, where a multi-antenna jam-mer generates artificial noise (AN) to confuse eavesdroppers. Two kinds of eavesdroppers are considered: passive eavesdroppers who only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Jiangbo Si , Zihao Cheng , Zan Li , Julian Cheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we investigate the optimal design of a wireless-powered covert communication (WP-CC) system, in which a probabilistic accumulate-then-transmit (ATT) protocol is proposed to maximize the communication covertness subject to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yida Wang , Shihao Yan , Weiwei Yang , Caijun Zhong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in a cost-effective manner. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Qi Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Weidong Mei , Shiqi Gong , Jie Tang , Chengwen Xing

Wireless networks with directional antennas, like millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, have enhanced security. For a large-scale mmWave ad hoc network in which eavesdroppers are randomly located, however, eavesdroppers can still intercept the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Yongxu Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert W. Heath

To improve national security, government agencies have long been committed to enforcing powerful surveillance measures on suspicious individuals or communications. In this paper, we consider a wireless legitimate surveillance system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Caijun Zhong , Xin Jiang , Fengzhong Qu , Zhaoyang Zhang

Modulo-wrapping receivers have attracted interest in several areas of digital communications, including precoding and lattice coding. The asymptotic capacity and error performance of the modulo AWGN channel have been well established.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Gizem Tabak , Andrew Singer

This work employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a jammer to aid a covert communication from a transmitter Alice to a receiver Bob, where the UAV transmits artificial noise (AN) with random power to deliberately create interference to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Hangmei Rao , Sa Xiao , Shihao Yan , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang

Motivated by diverse secure requirements of multi-user in UAV systems, we propose a collaborative secret and covert transmission method for multi-antenna ground users to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Specifically, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Jinpeng Xu , Lin Bai , Xin Xie , Lin Zhou

The fundamental information-theoretic limits of covert, or low probability of detection (LPD), communication have been extensively studied for over a decade, resulting in the square root law (SRL): only $L\sqrt{n}$ covert bits can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Rohan Bali , Trevor E. Bailey , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

In this letter, we propose reliable covert communications with the aim of minimizing age of information (AoI) in the time-varying channels. We named the time duration that channel state information (CSI) is valid as a new metric, as age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shima Salar Hosseini , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari

In this paper, the privacy of wireless transmissions is improved through the use of an efficient technique termed dynamic directional modulation (DDM), and is subsequently assessed in terms of the measure of information leakage. Recently, a…

Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is…