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We consider the problem of covert communication over the entanglement-assisted (EA) bosonic multiple access channel (MAC). We derive a closed-form achievable rate region for the general EA bosonic MAC using high-order phase-shift keying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Yu-Chen Shen , Matthieu R. Bloch

The capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel model is analyzed when there are multiple antennas at the sender, intended receiver and eavesdropper. The associated channel matrices are fixed and known to all the terminals. A computable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ashish Khisti , Gregory Wornell

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

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

We study covert communications over binary-input discrete memoryless alarm two-way channels, in which two users interact through a two-way channel and attempt to hide the presence of their communication from an eavesdropping receiver. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tuna Erdoğan , Tyler Kann , Aria Nosratinia , Matthieu Bloch

This paper investigates the capacity of a communications channel that, in addition to additive white Gaussian noise, also suffers from interference caused by a co-existing radar transmission. The radar interference (of short duty-cycle and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sara Shahi , Daniela Tuninetti , Natasha Devroye

In this work, a class of information theoretic secrecy problems is addressed where the eavesdropper channel states are completely unknown to the legitimate parties. In particular, MIMO wiretap channel models are considered where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

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

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Rohan Bali , Trevor E. Bailey , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

We determine the covert capacity for entanglement generation over a noisy quantum channel. While secrecy guarantees that the transmitted information remains inaccessible to an adversary, covert communication ensures that the transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ohad Kimelfeld , Boulat A. Bash , Uzi Pereg

We present truly ultimate limits on covert quantum communication by exploiting quantum-mechanical properties of the Minkowski vacuum in the quantum field theory framework. Our main results are the following: We show how two parties equipped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Kamil Bradler , Timjan Kalajdzievski , George Siopsis , Christian Weedbrook

Covert communication, also known as low probability of detection (LPD) communication, prevents the adversary from knowing that a communication is taking place. Recent work has demonstrated that, in a three-party scenario with a transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Boulat Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

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

Covert communication over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with finite block length is investigated in this paper. The attention is on the covert criterion, which has not been considered in finite block length circumstance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

We explore covert communication of qubits over an arbitrary quantum channel. Covert communication conceals the transmissions in the channel noise, ensuring that an adversary is unable to detect their presence. We show the achievability of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Evan J. D. Anderson , Michael S. Bullock , Filip Rozpędek , Boulat A. Bash

We consider the Gaussian Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel (GMAC-WT). In this scenario, multiple users communicate with an intended receiver in the presence of an intelligent and informed wire-tapper who receives a degraded version of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ender Tekin , Aylin Yener

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

This paper explores a new secure wireless communication paradigm where the physical layer security technology is applied to counteract both the detection and eavesdropping attacks, such that the critical covertness and secrecy properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Huihui Wu , Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

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

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

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