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 …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided covert wireless communications with delay constraint

X Zhou, S Yan, Q Wu, F Shu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting
surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the …

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 …

Delay-intolerant covert communications with either fixed or random transmit power

S Yan, B He, X Zhou, Y Cong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study delay-intolerant covert communications in additive white Gaussian
noise (AWGN) channels with a finite block length, ie, a finite number of channel uses …

Joint optimization of a UAV's trajectory and transmit power for covert communications

X Zhou, S Yan, J Hu, J Sun, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of an area that …

Wireless covert communications aided by distributed cooperative jamming over slow fading channels

TX Zheng, Z Yang, C Wang, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study covert communications between a pair of legitimate transmitter-
receiver against a watchful warden over slow fading channels. There coexist multiple …

Optimal transmit power and flying location for UAV covert wireless communications

S Yan, SV Hanly, IB Collings - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper jointly optimizes the flying location and wireless communication transmit power
for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) conducting covert operations. This is motivated by …

Gaussian signalling for covert communications

S Yan, Y Cong, SV Hanly, X Zhou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we examine the optimality of Gaussian signalling for covert communications
with an upper bound on D (p 1|| p 0) or D (p 0|| p 1) as the covertness constraint, where D (p …