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Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has long been proposed as a key solution for charging and communicating with low-cost and low-power devices. However, the employment of radio frequency (RF) signals for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Constantinos Psomas , Minglei You , Kai Liang , Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables unconditionally secure communication ensured by the laws of physics, opening a promising route to security infrastructure for the coming age of quantum computers. QKD's demonstrated secret-key rates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Zheshen Zhang , Changchen Chen , Quntao Zhuang , Franco N. C. Wong , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

As Language Models (LMs) advance, Semantic Error Correction (SEC) has emerged as a promising approach for reliable network designs. Yet existing methods prioritize intent over accuracy, falling short of verbatim recovery. Our recent work,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yuchen Pan , Yuyang Du , Yirun Wang , Shiqi Xu , Lihao Zhang , Soung Chang Liew

This article presents a new Domain Specific Embedded Language (DSEL) dedicated to Software-Defined Radio (SDR). From a set of carefully designed components, it enables to build efficient software digital communication systems, able to take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Adrien Cassagne , Romain Tajan , Olivier Aumage , Camille Leroux , Denis Barthou , Christophe Jégo

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

Secure communications is becoming increasingly relevant in the development of space technology. Well established cryptographic technology is already in place and is expected to continue to be so. On the other hand, information theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Angeles Vazquez-Castro , Masahito Hayashi

Covert communication, also known as low probability of detection (LPD) communication, prevents the adversary from knowing that a communication is taking place. Recent work has demonstrated that, in a three-party scenario with a transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Boulat Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Covert communication aims to shield the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, for the first time we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

The fundamental limit of Semantic Communications (joint source-channel coding) is established when the transmission needs to be kept covert from an external warden. We derive information-theoretic achievability and matching converse results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

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

We study covert communications over binary-input discrete memoryless alarm two-way channels, in which two users interact through a two-way channel and attempt to hide the presence of their communication from an eavesdropping receiver. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tuna Erdoğan , Tyler Kann , Aria Nosratinia , Matthieu Bloch

Many large-scale distributed multi-agent systems exchange information over low-power communication networks. In particular, agents intermittently communicate state and control signals in robotic network applications, often with limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Tarun Rao Keshabhoina , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

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

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

This paper presents an experimental study on radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting of Bluetooth Classic devices. Our research aims to provide a practical evaluation of the possibilities for RF fingerprinting of everyday Bluetooth connected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Artis Rušiņš , Krišjānis Nesenbergs , Deniss Tiščenko , Pēteris Paikens

In this work, we propose a novel framework to identify and mitigate a recently disclosed covert channel scheme exploiting unprotected broadcast messages in cellular MAC layer protocols. Examples of covert channel are used in data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Reza Soosahabi , Magdy Bayoumi

We study the first- and second-order asymptotics of covert communication over binary-input DMC for three different covertness metrics and under maximum probability of error constraint. When covertness is measured in terms of the relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch

Software-defined radios (SDRs) are indispensable for signal reconnaissance and physical-layer dissection, but despite we have advanced tools like Universal Radio Hacker, SDR-based approaches require substantial effort. Contrarily, RF…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Federico Maggi , Andrea Guglielmini

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

We present truly ultimate limits on covert quantum communication by exploiting quantum-mechanical properties of the Minkowski vacuum in the quantum field theory framework. Our main results are the following: We show how two parties equipped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Kamil Bradler , Timjan Kalajdzievski , George Siopsis , Christian Weedbrook