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 …

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) …

Performance analysis and optimization for jammer-aided multiantenna UAV covert communication

H Du, D Niyato, YA Xie, Y Cheng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their
high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing …

Covert ambient backscatter communications with multi-antenna tag

J Liu, J Yu, D Niyato, R Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a unicast beamforming network for covert ambient backscatter
communications (AmBC). Different from the prior covert backscatter works using artificial …

Covert rate maximization in wireless full-duplex relaying systems with power control

R Sun, B Yang, S Ma, Y Shen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the fundamental covert rate performance in a wireless relaying
system consisting of a source-destination pair, a full-duplex (FD) relay and a warden, where …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided joint radar and covert communications: Fundamentals, optimization, and challenges

H Du, J Kang, D Niyato, J Zhang… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future wireless communication systems will evolve toward multifunctional integrated
systems to improve spectrum utilization and reduce equipment sizes. Joint radar and …

Covertness and secrecy study in untrusted relay-assisted D2D networks

R Sun, B Yang, Y Shen, X Jiang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the covertness and secrecy of wireless communications in an
untrusted relay-assisted device-to-device (D2D) network consisting of a full-duplex base …

Robust beamforming design for covert communications

S Ma, Y Zhang, H Li, S Lu, N Al-Dhahir… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a common unicast beamforming network where Alice utilizes the
communication to Carol as a cover and covertly transmits a message to Bob without being …

On covert communication performance with outdated CSI in wireless greedy relay systems

J Bai, J He, Y Chen, Y Shen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication performance relies largely on the availability of channel state information
(CSI). This paper investigates the impact of outdated CSI on the achievable covert …

Covert communications over multiple overt channels

SW Kim, HQ Ta - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We explore leveraging the multiplicity of overt (public) messages, destined for different
receivers through different channels, for hiding the transmission of a covert (private) …