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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

We consider covert communication, i.e., hiding the presence of communication from an adversary for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. We characterize the maximum covert coding rate under a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Ahmed Bendary , Amr Abdelaziz , C. Emre Koksal

We propose a covert communication protocol for the spread-spectrum multiple random access with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. No existing paper has studied covert communication for the random access channel. Our protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

Covert wireless communication can prevent an adversary from knowing the existence of user's transmission, thus provide stronger security protection. In AWGN channels, a square root law was obtained and the result shows that Alice can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma , Qiping Huang

Covert communication can prevent an adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, a square root law is found that Alice can reliably and covertly transmit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma

Covert wireless communications are critical for concealing the existence of any transmission from adversarial wardens, particularly in complex environments with multiple heterogeneous detectors. This paper proposes a novel adversarial AI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Afan Ali , Md. Jalil Piran , Huseyin Arslan

Ambient backscatter communication system is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for Internet of Things. In such system, a device named tag, sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

Fundamental limits of covert communication have been studied in literature for different models of scalar channels. It was shown that, over $n$ independent channel uses, $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{n})$ bits can transmitted reliably over a public…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Amr Abdelaziz , C. Emre Koksal

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

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

Ambient backscatter communications have been introduced as low-power communications for green networking. This technology is very promising as it recycles ambient radio frequency waves, however such systems have limitations and suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Nada Bel-Haj-Maati , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Nadine Malhouroux , Marco Di Renzo

In this work, we consider a backscatter communication system wherein multiple asynchronous sources (tags) exploit the reverberation generated by a nearby radar transmitter as an ambient carrier to deliver a message to a common destination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Jeremy Johnston , Marco Lops , Xiaodong Wang

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

Covert communication conceals the transmission of the message from an attentive adversary. Recent work on the limits of covert communication in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels has demonstrated that a covert transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Boulat Bash , Saikat Guha

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

This paper considers the covert identification problem in which a sender aims to reliably convey an identification (ID) message to a set of receivers via a binary-input discrete memoryless channel (BDMC), and simultaneously to guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel, where the transmitter has causal or noncausal knowledge of the channel states. Here, "covert" means that a warden on the channel should observe similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ligong Wang , Ashish Khisti , Gregory W. Wornell

Covert communication hides the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring reliable information decoding at the receiver, providing enhanced security in wireless communications. In this letter, covert communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

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

Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is…

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