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Covert communication conceals transmission of messages from Alice to Bob out of a watchful adversary, Willie, who tries to determine if a transmission took place or not. While covert communication in a basic, vanilla setting where all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

In this paper, we investigate covert communication over millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. In particular, a mmWave transmitter, referred to as Alice, attempts to reliably communicate to a receiver, referred to as Bob, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

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

Covert communication prevents legitimate transmission from being detected by a warden while maintaining certain covert rate at the intended user. Prior works have considered the design of covert communication over conventional low-frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jiayu Zhang , Min Li , Shihao Yan , Chunshan Liu , Xihan Chen , Minjian Zhao , Philip Whiting

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

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

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 this paper, we design the first computationally efficient codes for simultaneously reliable and covert communication over Binary Symmetric Channels (BSCs). Our setting is as follows: a transmitter Alice wishes to potentially reliably…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

In this work, we consider a covert communication scenario, where a transmitter Alice communicates to a receiver Bob with the aid of a probabilistic and uninformed jammer against an adversary warden's detection. The transmission status and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Xun Chen , Fujun Gao , Min Qiu , Jia Zhang , Feng Shu , Shihao Yan

In this paper, we investigate joint information-theoretic security and covert communication on a network in the presence of a single transmitter (Alice), a friendly jammer, a single untrusted user, two legitimate users, and a single warden…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Pooya Baee , Farid Samsami khodadad , Moslem Forouzesh

In this paper, we investigate covert communication over millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. In particular, a dual-beam mmWave transmitter, comprised of two independent antenna arrays, attempts to reliably communicate to a receiver Bob…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

Motivated by diverse secure requirements of multi-user in UAV systems, we propose a collaborative secret and covert transmission method for multi-antenna ground users to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Specifically, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Jinpeng Xu , Lin Bai , Xin Xie , Lin Zhou

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

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

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 physical layer security (PHY-security), the frequently observed high correlation between the main and wiretap channels can cause a significant loss of secrecy. This paper investigates a slow fading scenario, where a transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Weixiao Meng , Cheng Li

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

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) empowered covert communication system in the near-field region. Alice covertly transmits messages to Bob with the assistance of the XL-RIS, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jun Liu , Gang Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiangyun Zhou

This work investigates the phase gain of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) covert communication over complex-valued additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The transmitter Alice intends to transmit covert messages to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sen Qiao , Daming Cao , Qiaosheng Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Guangjie Liu

We ask whether neural networks can learn to use secret keys to protect information from other neural networks. Specifically, we focus on ensuring confidentiality properties in a multiagent system, and we specify those properties in terms of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Martín Abadi , David G. Andersen