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We consider the problem of covert communication over continuous-time additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels under spectral mask constraints, wherein two legitimate parties attempt to communicate reliably in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Qiaosheng , Zhang , Matthieu R. Bloch , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Consider the problem of covertly controlling a linear system. In this problem, Alice desires to control (stabilize or change the parameters of) a linear system, while keeping an observer, Willie, unable to decide if the system is indeed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Barak Amihood , Asaf Cohen

A new paradigm for secure communication, based on quantum illumination, is proposed. Alice uses spontaneous parametric down-conversion to send Bob a set of signal modes over a pure-loss channel while retaining the set of idler modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Jeffrey H. Shapiro

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

Consider the problem of covertly controlling a linear system. In this problem, Alice desires to control (stabilize or change the behavior of) a linear system, while keeping an observer, Willie, unable to decide if the system is indeed being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Barak Amihood , Asaf Cohen

This paper investigates the problem of covert communications in a heterogeneous wireless network where multiple communication modalities are used simultaneously. In this setup, a legitimate transmitter sends confidential data to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Justin H. Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

Inspired from quantum key distribution, we consider wireless communication between Alice and Bob when the intermediate space between Alice and Bob is controlled by Eve. That is, our model divides the channel noise into two parts, the noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi

In this paper, we study the problem of secure transmission with covert requirement in untrusted relaying networks. Our considered system model consists of one source, one destination, one untrusted relay, and one Willie. The untrusted relay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Ali Kuhestani

The problem of covert communication over Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels is investigated, in which a transmitter attempts to reliably communicate with a legitimate receiver while avoiding…

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

Wireless communication is susceptible to eavesdropping attacks because of its broadcast nature. This paper illustrates how interference can be used to counter eavesdropping and assist secrecy. In particular, a wire-tap channel with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we establish a framework for low probability of detection (LPD) communication from a sequential change-point detection (SCPD) perspective, where a transmitter, Alice, wants to hide her signal transmission to a receiver, Bob,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang , Don Towsley , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study covert communications between {a pair of} legitimate transmitter-receiver against a watchful warden over slow fading channels. There coexist multiple friendly helper nodes who are willing to protect the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tong-Xing Zheng , Ziteng Yang , Chao Wang , Zan Li , Jinhong Yuan , Xiaohong Guan

We investigate the physical layer security of wireless single-input single-output orthogonal-division multiplexing (OFDM) when a transmitter, which we refer to as Alice, sends her information to a receiver, which we refer to as Bob, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mohamed F. Marzban , Ahmed El Shafie , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

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

In this work, we consider a system of covert communication with the aid of a full-duplex (FD) receiver to enhance the performance in a more realistic scenario, i.e., only the channel distribution information (CDI) rather than channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Tingzhen Xu , Ling Xu , Xiaoyu Liu , Zaoyu Lu

This paper investigates the covert communication in an air-to-ground (A2G) system, where a UAV (Alice) can adopt the omnidirectional microwave (OM) or directional mmWave (DM) transmission mode to transmit covert data to a ground user (Bob)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Wenhao Zhang , Ji He , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

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

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

If Alice must communicate with Bob over a channel shared with the adversarial Eve, then Bob must be able to validate the authenticity of the message. In particular we consider the model where Alice and Eve share a discrete memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Eric Graves , Paul Yu , Predrag Spasojevic