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We extend covert communication to the quantum regime by showing that covert quantum communication is possible over optical channels with noise arising either from the environment or from the sender's lab. In particular, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Valerio Scarani

We consider the problem of covert communication with random slot selection over binary-input Discrete Memoryless Channels and Additive White Gaussian Noise channels, in which a transmitter attempts to reliably communicate with a legitimate…

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

For a state-dependent DMC with input alphabet $\mathcal{X}$ and state alphabet $\mathcal{S}$ where the i.i.d. state sequence is known causally at the transmitter, it is shown that by using at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Hamidreza Farmanbar , Amir K. Khandani

In this paper, the problem of secret key agreement in state-dependent multiple access channels with an eavesdropper is studied. For this model, the channel state information is non-causally available at the transmitters; furthermore, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Mohsen Bahrami , Ali Bereyhi , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a multi-access system where multiple users communicate to a legitimate receiver in presence of an external warden. Only a specific subset of the users, called covert users, needs their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

The secrecy problem in the state-dependent cognitive interference channel is considered in this paper. In our model, there are a primary and a secondary (cognitive) transmitter-receiver pairs, in which the cognitive transmitter has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Hamid G. Bafghi , Babak Seyfe , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

In this paper, we consider fundamental communication limits over a compound channel. Covert communication in the information-theoretic context has been primarily concerned with fundamental limits when the transmitter wishes to communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We study a backscatter communication protocol over a AWGN channel, where a transmitter illuminates a tag with a directional multi-antenna. The tag performs load modulation on the signal while hiding its physical presence from a warden. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Roberto Di Candia , Saneea Malik , Huseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti

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

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

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

Strong secrecy communication over a discrete memoryless state-dependent multiple access channel (SD-MAC) with an external eavesdropper is investigated. The channel is governed by discrete memoryless and i.i.d. channel states and the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yiqi Chen , Tobias Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund , Yuan Luo

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

We consider that a transmitter covertly communicates with multiple receivers under the help of a friendly jammer. The messages intended for different receivers are transmitted in mutually orthogonal frequency bands. An adversary observes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Ke-Wen Huang , Hao Deng , Hui-Ming Wang

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

This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over the broadcast channel with receiver side information under the lens of individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

In this work, we consider delay-constrained covert communications with the aid of a full-duplex (FD) receiver. Without delay constraints, it has been shown that the transmit power of artificial noise (AN) at the FD receiver should be random…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Feng Shu , Tingzhen Xu , Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan

This paper studies a memoryless state-dependent multiple access channel (MAC) where two transmitters wish to convey a message to a receiver under the assumption of causal and imperfect channel state information at transmitters (CSIT) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lorenzo Miretti , Mari Kobayashi , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret

The study of the fundamental limits of covert communications, where a transmitter Alice wants to send information to a desired recipient Bob without detection of that transmission by an attentive and capable warden Willie, has emerged…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Dennis Goeckel