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 …

Applications and prospects of artificial intelligence in covert satellite communication: a review

K Lu, H Liu, L Zeng, J Wang, Z Zhang, J An - Science China Information …, 2023 - Springer
Satellite communication has the characteristics of wide coverage and large communication
capacity, and is not easily affected by land disasters. It is quite suitable as a supplement to …

Covert communication in intelligent reflecting surface-assisted NOMA systems: Design, analysis, and optimization

L Lv, Q Wu, Z Li, Z Ding, N Al-Dhahir… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-
assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a legitimate transmitter …

Achieving covert wireless communications using a full-duplex receiver

K Shahzad, X Zhou, S Yan, J Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while
ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this paper, a wireless …

Intelligent reflecting surface-assisted multi-antenna covert communications: Joint active and passive beamforming optimization

C Wang, Z Li, J Shi, DWK Ng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-antenna covert
communications. In particular, with the help of an IRS, a favorable communication …

Aerial intelligent reflecting surface-enabled terahertz covert communications in beyond-5G Internet of Things

MT Mamaghani, Y Hong - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to be extensively employed for assisting
wireless communications in the Internet of Things (IoT). On the other hand, terahertz (THz) …

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 …

Multi-antenna covert communication via full-duplex jamming against a warden with uncertain locations

X Chen, W Sun, C Xing, N Zhao, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communication can hide the information transmission process from the warden to
prevent adversarial eavesdropping. However, it becomes challenging when the location of …

Covert rate optimization of millimeter wave full-duplex communications

C Wang, Z Li, DWK Ng - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of full-duplex covert millimeter wave (mmWave)
communications, where a mmWave transmitter (Alice) sends information signals to its …