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Encryption prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure stealth---a security demand that a mere presence of a message be undetectable. We characterize the ultimate limit of covert communication that is secure against the most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Boulat A. Bash , Andrei H. Gheorghe , Monika Patel , Jonathan Habif , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

Low probability of detection (or covert) communication refers to the scenario where information must be sent reliably to a receiver, but with low probability of detection by an adversary. Recent works on the fundamental limits of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Nick Letzepis

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

Low probability of detection (LPD) communication has recently emerged as a new transmission technology to address privacy and security in wireless networks. Recent studies have established the fundamental limits of LPD communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Jinsong Hu , Stephen V. Hanly

This paper proposes a noncoherent low probability of detection (LPD) communication system based on direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) and Grassmannian signaling. Grassmannian constellations enhance covertness because they tend to follow…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Diego Cuevas , Mikel Gutiérrez , Jesús Ibáñez , Ignacio Santamaria

In this letter, the secrecy performance in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) over fluctuating two-ray (FTR) channels, which is used to model the millimetre wave channel, is investigated in terms of the secrecy outage probability (SOP).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Hui Zhao , Jiayi Zhang , Liang Yang , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This article discusses the available Software Defined Radios (SDRs), compatible software, message formats, and also shows how it is possible to do penetration tests using SDR for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ZigBee technologies.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Mahyar Taj Dini , Volodymyr Sokolov

In this paper, we establish a framework for low probability of detection (LPD) communication from a sequential change-point detection (SCPD) perspective, where a transmitter, Alice, wants to hide her signal transmission to a receiver, Bob,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang , Don Towsley , H. Vincent Poor

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 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

Dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) system has recently attracted significant academic attentions as an enabling solution for realizing radar-communication spectrum sharing. During the DFRC transmission, however, the critical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

In recent years there has been growing interest in study of multi-antenna transmit designs for providing secure communication over the physical layer. This paper considers the scenario of an intended multi-input single-output channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma

This study focuses on developing an experimental system for estimating communication channels in a multi-robot mobile system using software-defined radio (SDR) devices. The system consists of two mobile robots programmed for two scenarios:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Do Hai Son , Nguyen Huu Hung , Pham Duy Hung , Tran Thi Thuy Quynh

We investigate covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted symbiotic radio (SR) system under the parasitic SR (PSR) and the commensal SR (CSR) cases, where an IRS is exploited to create a double reflection link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yunpeng Feng , Jian Chen , Lu Lv , Yuchen Zhou , Long Yang , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Fumiyuki Adachi

Software defined radio (SDR) has become a popular tool for the implementation and testing for communications performance. The advantage of the SDR approach includes: a re-configurable design, adaptive response to changing conditions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-28 Wenhao Xiong , Xin Tian , Genshe Chen , Khanh Pham , Erik Blasch

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 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…

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

The concept of cross-layer optimization has been around for several years now. The primary goal of the cross-layer approach was to liberate the strict boundary between the layers of the traditional OSI protocol stack. This is to enable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jithin Jagannath , Anu Jagannath , Justin Henney , Noor Biswas , Tyler Gwin , Zackary Kane , Andrew Drozd

Military software defined radio (SDR) systems are a major factor in future network-centric operations due to their flexibility and support for more capable radio communications systems. The inherent nature of software-based systems requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Peter Hillmann , Björn Stelte