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 communication in ambient backscatter systems with uncontrollable RF source

J Liu, J Yu, X Chen, R Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we study the covert communications in ambient backscatter systems (ABS) with
uncontrollable RF source on AWGN channels. In contrast to the prior works impractically …

On the limits of covert ambient backscatter communications

W Chen, H Ding, S Wang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates the limit covert rate of ambient backscatter communications over
additive white Gaussian noise channel, where Alice expects to reliably transmit information …

Act before another is aware: Safeguarding backscatter systems with covert communications

B Gu, H Xie, D Li - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates and analyzes covert communications to safeguard backscatter
systems, ie, how to hide backscattering transmission for privacy and security, which is rarely …

Energy-efficient covert communications for bistatic backscatter systems

Y Wang, S Yan, W Yang, Y Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider covert communications for bistatic backscatter systems, where a
tag transmits information passively to a reader by reflecting incident carrier signals with …

On the limits of covert backscatter communication over undecodable ambient signals

W Chen, H Ding, S Wang, F Gong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the limit covert rate of the backscatter communication systems based
on undecodable ambient radio frequency (RF) signals over additive white Gaussian noise …

Passive covert communications based on reconfigurable intelligent surface

Y Wu, S Wang, J Luo, W Chen - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based passive covert communication
scheme is proposed, where source node Alice covertly transmits information to receiver Bob …

Covert communication in backscatter radio

K Shahzad, X Zhou - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communication in backscatter radio systems is considered, where the transmitter
controls its transmit power to keep the transponder's response hidden, while a warden tries …

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 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 …