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Covert communication is to achieve a reliable transmission from a transmitter to a receiver while guaranteeing an arbitrarily small probability of this transmission being detected by a warden. In this work, we study the covert communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Shihao Yan , Biao He , Yirui Cong , Xiangyun Zhou

We consider the problem of covert communication with random slot selection over binary-input Discrete Memoryless Channels and Additive White Gaussian Noise channels, in which a transmitter attempts to reliably communicate with a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Shi-Yuan Wang , Keerthi S. K. Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

This paper considers the problem of communication over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) or an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel subject to the constraint that the probability that an adversary who observes the channel outputs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ligong Wang , Gregory Wornell , Lizhong Zheng

Covert quantum communication is usually analyzed under idealized assumptions that channel parameters, such as transmissivity and background noise, are perfectly known and constant. In realistic optical links, including satellite, fiber, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Giuseppe Nebbione , Shahid Raza

We derive upper and lower bounds for the covert capacity of Additive White Gaussian Noise channels when measuring reliability in terms of the average error probability and covertness in terms of Kullback-Leibler divergence. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 C. Bouette , L. Luzzi , M. Bloch

This paper considers the achievability and converse bounds on the maximal channel coding rate at a given blocklength and error probability over AWGN channels. The problem stems from covert communication with Gaussian codewords. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

Encryption prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure stealth---a security demand that a mere presence of a message be undetectable. We characterize the ultimate limit of covert communication that is secure against the most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Boulat A. Bash , Andrei H. Gheorghe , Monika Patel , Jonathan Habif , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

We consider fundamental limits for communicating over a compound channel when the state of the channel needs to be masked. Our model is closely related to an area of study known as covert communication that is a setting in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehrasa Ahmadipour

We consider entanglement-assisted communication over the qubit depolarizing channel under the security requirement of covert communication, where not only the information is kept secret, but the transmission itself must be concealed from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Elyakim Zlotnick , Boulat Bash , Uzi Pereg

The recent square root law (SRL) for covert communication demonstrates that Alice can reliably transmit $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{n})$ bits to Bob in $n$ uses of an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel while keeping ineffective any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

We study the problem of coding over a general discrete memoryless broadcast channel controlled by random parameters. The parameters are available at the transmitter in a non-causal manner and are subject to a state masking constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Michael Dikshtein , Shlomo Shamai

We consider a scenario in which $K$ transmitters attempt to communicate covert messages reliably to a legitimate receiver over a discrete memoryless MAC while simultaneously escaping detection from an adversary who observes their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

We study communication systems over band-limited Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels in which the transmitter output is constrained to be symmetric binary (bi-polar). In this work we improve the original Ozarov-Wyner-Ziv (OWZ)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Michael Peleg , Tomer Michaeli , Shlomo Shamai

For a continuous-time additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with possible feedback, it has been shown that as sampling gets infinitesimally fine, the mutual information of the associative discrete-time channels converges to that of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Guangyue Han , Shlomo Shamai

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

Optimal signalling over the Gaussian MIMO wire-tap channel is studied under the total transmit power constraint. A closed-form solution for an optimal transmit covariance matrix is obtained when the channel is strictly degraded. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Sergey Loyka , Charalambos D. Charalambous

A covert communication system under block fading channels is considered where users experience uncertainty about their channel knowledge. The transmitter seeks to hide the covert communication to a private user by exploiting a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

In this work, an explicit wiretap coding scheme based on polar lattices is proposed to achieve the secrecy capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) wiretap channel. Firstly, polar lattices are used to construct secrecy-good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Ling Liu , Yanfei Yan , Cong Ling

Quantum communication addresses the problem of exchanging information across macroscopic distances by employing encryption techniques based on quantum mechanical laws. Here, we advance a new paradigm for secure quantum communication by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 R. Di Candia , H. Yiğitler , G. S. Paraoanu , R. Jäntti