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 …

Low probability of detection communication: Opportunities and challenges

S Yan, X Zhou, J Hu, SV Hanly - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LPD communication has recently emerged as a new transmission technology to address
privacy and security in wireless networks. Recent studies have established the fundamental …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Multi-antenna covert communications in random wireless networks

TX Zheng, HM Wang, DWK Ng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies multi-antenna-aided covert communications coexisting with randomly
located wardens and interferers, considering both centralized and distributed antenna …

Covert wireless communications under quasi-static fading with channel uncertainty

K Shahzad, X Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communications enable a transmitter to send information reliably in the presence of
an adversary, who looks to detect whether the transmission took place or not. We consider …