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Covert communications enable a transmitter to send information reliably in the presence of an adversary, who looks to detect whether the transmission took place or not. We consider covert communications over quasi-static block fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou

Hiding the wireless communication by transmitter Alice to intended receiver Bob from a capable and attentive adversary Willie has been widely studied under the moniker "covert communications". However, when such covert communication is done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ali Mohammadi Teshnizi , Majid Ghaderi , Dennis Goeckel

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

We introduce a gossip-like protocol for covert message passing between Alice and Bob as they move in an area watched over by a warden Willie. The area hosts a multitude of Internet of (Battlefield) Things (Io\b{eta}T) objects. Alice and Bob…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin

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

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

This paper exploits the multi-antenna technique to enhance the covert communication performance in a relay system, where a source S conducts covert communication with a destination D via a relay R, subjecting to the detections of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 He Zhu , Huihui Wu , Wei Su , Xiaohong Jiang

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

Security and privacy are major concerns in modern communication networks. In recent years, the information theory of covert communications, where the very presence of the communication is undetectable to a watchful and determined adversary,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

In this paper, we investigate covert communication over millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. In particular, a mmWave transmitter, referred to as Alice, attempts to reliably communicate to a receiver, referred to as Bob, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

Covert communication prevents legitimate transmission from being detected by a warden while maintaining certain covert rate at the intended user. Prior works have considered the design of covert communication over conventional low-frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jiayu Zhang , Min Li , Shihao Yan , Chunshan Liu , Xihan Chen , Minjian Zhao , Philip Whiting

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

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Wireless short-packet communications pose challenges to the security and reliability of the transmission. Besides, the proactive warder compounds these challenges, who detects and interferes with the potential transmission. An extra jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Manlin Wang , Yao Yao , Bin Xia , Zhiyong Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates the covert communications via cooperative jamming and relay selection in a wireless relay system, where a source intends to transmit a message to its destination with the help of a selected relay, and a warden…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Chan Gao , Bin Yang , Dong Zheng , Xiaohong Jiang , Tarik Taleb

Consider a channel where authorized transmitter Jack sends packets to authorized receiver Steve according to a Poisson process with rate $\lambda$ packets per second for a time period $T$. Suppose that covert transmitter Alice wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

Random access is a multiple access communication protocol where the users simultaneously communicate with a base station (BS) in an uncoordinated fashion. In this work, we consider the problem of multiuser detection in a random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Md Mashud Hyder

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

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

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