Covert communications: A comprehensive survey

X Chen, J An, Z Xiong, C Xing, N Zhao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Information security has always been a critical issue in wireless networks. Apart from other
secure techniques, covert communication emerges as a potential solution to security for …

Blockchain meets covert communication: A survey

Z Chen, L Zhu, P Jiang, C Zhang, F Gao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communication enables covert information transmission in an undetectable way to
prevent the exposure of communication behaviors. Blockchain-based covert communication …

Achieving covert wireless communication with a multi-antenna relay

L Lv, Z Li, H Ding, N Al-Dhahir… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate covert wireless communication in a multi-antenna relay network, where the
relay transmits its own covert message to the destination when assisting the source's …

Achieving covertness and security in broadcast channels with finite blocklength

C Wang, Z Li, H Zhang, DWK Ng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering multi-user downlink ultra-high reliability and low latency communications
(URLLC), this paper employs the artificial noise (AN) technique to establish a secure and …

Covert communications with randomly distributed wardens in the finite blocklength regime

R Ma, W Yang, L Tao, X Lu, Z Xiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates covert communications with finite blocklength in the presence of
multiple randomly distributed wardens, which are modeled as a Poisson point process …

Covert beamforming design for integrated radar sensing and communication systems

S Ma, H Sheng, R Yang, H Li, Y Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose covert beamforming design frameworks for integrated radar sensing and
communication (IRSC) systems, where the radar can covertly communicate with legitimate …

Covert communication with time uncertainty in time-critical wireless networks

X Lu, S Yan, W Yang, M Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the status packet covert communication with time uncertainty in
time-critical wireless networks. We model the packet generation as a Poisson process that …

Covert rate study for full-duplex D2D communications underlaid cellular networks

Y Yang, B Yang, S Shen, Y She… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaid cellular networks have emerged as a
promising network architecture to provide extended coverage and high data rate for various …

Channel inversion power control aided covert communications in uplink NOMA systems

M Wang, W Yang, X Lu, C Hu, B Liu… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we investigate covert communications in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access
(NOMA) systems, where a covert user tries to transmit private information to a legitimate …

Joint packet generation and covert communication in delay-intolerant status update systems

X Lu, W Yang, S Yan, L Tao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we jointly investigate packet generation and covert communication in delay-
intolerant status update systems. For the first time, we establish a bridge between the prior …