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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

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 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 transmission is investigated for a cooperative deception strategy, where a cooperative jammer (Jammer) tries to attract a multi-antenna adversary (Willie) and degrade the adversary's reception ability for the signal from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Jiangbo Si , Zizhen Liu , Zan Li , Hang Hu , Lei Guan , Chao Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Covert wireless communication or low probability of detection (LPD) communication that employs the noise or jamming signals as the cover to hide user's information can prevent a warden Willie from discovering user's transmission attempts.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Zhuo Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Qiping Huang

In covert communication, Alice tries to communicate with Bob without being detected by a warden Willie. When the distance between Alice and Bob becomes large compared to the distance between Alice and Willie(s), the performance of covert…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Don Towsley , Boulat A. Bash , Saikat Guha , Dennis Goeckel

Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this work, a wireless communication system under fading channels is considered where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

We propose a novel covert communication system in which a ground user, Alice, transmits unauthorized message fragments to Bob, a low-Earth orbit satellite (LEO), and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) warden (Willie) attempts to detect these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pei Peng , Xianfu Chen , Tianheng Xu , Celimuge Wu , Yulong Zou , Qiang Ni , Emina Soljanin

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

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

Covert communication is necessary when revealing the mere existence of a message leaks sensitive information to an attacker. Consider a network link where an authorized transmitter Jack sends packets to an authorized receiver Steve, and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

In this paper, we investigate joint information theoretic secrecy and covert communication in a single-input multi-output (SIMO) system where a transmitter (Alice) is communicating with two legitimate users (Bob and Carol). We consider that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Ali Kuhestani , Phee Lep Yeoh

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

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

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

Suppose that a transmitter Alice potentially wishes to communicate with a receiver Bob over an adversarially jammed binary channel. An active adversary James eavesdrops on their communication over a binary symmetric channel (BSC(q)), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Simultaneous use of high-end wearable wireless devices like smart glasses is challenging in a dense indoor environment due to the high nature of interference. In this scenario, the millimeter wave (mmWave) band offers promising potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath

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

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