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This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) empowered covert communication system in the near-field region. Alice covertly transmits messages to Bob with the assistance of the XL-RIS, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jun Liu , Gang Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiangyun Zhou

Covert communication can prevent the adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In the additive white Gaussian noise channels, a square root law is obtained and the result shows that Alice can reliably and covertly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Li Yang , Jianfeng Ma

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

Covert transmission is studied for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided communication system, where Alice aims to transmit messages to Bob without being detected by the warden Willie. Specifically, an IRS is used to increase the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jiangbo Si , Zan Li , Yan Zhao , Julian Cheng , Lei Guan , Jia Shi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we study covert communication in wireless networks consisting of a transmitter, Alice, an intended receiver, Bob, a warden, Willie, and a Poisson field of interferers. Bob and Willie are subject to uncertain shot noise due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Biao He , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Hamid Jafarkhani

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

In this paper, we propose to employ a modular-based movable extremely large-scale array (XL-array) at Alice for enhancing covert communication performance. Compared with existing work that mostly considered either far-field or near-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Hai Lin , Yi Gong

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is investigated, where the transmitter (Alice) is a dual functional radar communication (DFRC) base station (BS) that aims to sense the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Jiayi Lei , Xidong Mu , Tiankui Zhang , Wenjun Xu , Ping Zhang

In this work, we consider a covert communication scenario, where a transmitter Alice communicates to a receiver Bob with the aid of a probabilistic and uninformed jammer against an adversary warden's detection. The transmission status and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Xun Chen , Fujun Gao , Min Qiu , Jia Zhang , Feng Shu , Shihao Yan

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication has attracted increasing attention as a promising technology for 5G networks. One of the key architectural features of mmWave is the use of massive antenna arrays at both the transmitter and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Qing Xue , Xuming Fang , Ming Xiao

Emerging applications involving device-to-device communication among wearable electronics require Gbps throughput, which can be achieved by utilizing millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. When many such communicating devices are indoors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kiran Venugopal , Matthew C. Valenti , Robert W. Heath

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 scenario wherein Alice wants to (potentially) communicate to the intended receiver Bob over a network consisting of multiple parallel links in the presence of a passive eavesdropper Willie, who observes an unknown subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Swanand Kadhe , Sidharth Jaggi , Mayank Bakshi , Alex Sprintson

Millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicular communica tion systems have the potential to improve traffic efficiency and safety. Lack of secure communication links, however, may lead to a formidable set of abuses and attacks. To secure communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Mohammed E. Eltayeb , Junil Choi , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter-wave wireless networks offer high throughput and can (ideally) prevent eavesdropping attacks using narrow, directional beams. Unfortunately, imperfections in physical hardware mean today's antenna arrays all exhibit side lobes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Yanzi Zhu , Ying Ju , Bolun Wang , Jenna Cryan , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

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

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

This paper considers a scenario in which an Alice-Bob pair wishes to communicate in secret in the presence of an active Eve, who is capable of jamming as well as eavesdropping in Full-Duplex (FD) mode. As countermeasure, Bob also operates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Lingxiang Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Zhi Chen

In this paper, we investigate covert communications in a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) system. Under the RSMA principles, the messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Heng Chang , Hai Yang , Shuobo Xu , Xiyu Pang , Hongwu Liu

Communication in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has recently been proposed to enable giga-bit-per-second data rates for next generation wireless systems. Physical layer security techniques have emerged as a simple and yet effective way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Rohith Talwar , Nancy Amala , George Medina , Akshadeep Singh Jida , Mohammed E. Eltayeb