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 …

Physical Layer Covert Communication in B5G Wireless Networks—Its Research, Applications, and Challenges

Y Jiang, L Wang, HH Chen, X Shen - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer covert communication is a crucial secure communication technology that
enables a transmitter to convey information covertly to a recipient without being detected by …

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 …

Covert Communication Over a -User Multiple-Access Channel

KSK Arumugam, MR Bloch - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a scenario in which K transmitters attempt to communicate covert messages
reliably to a legitimate receiver over a discrete memoryless multiple-access channel (MAC) …

On resource allocation in covert wireless communication with channel estimation

L Sun, T Xu, S Yan, J Hu, X Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work, for the first time, tackles channel estimation design with pilots in the context of
covert wireless communication. We consider Rayleigh fading for the communication channel …

Covert communications without channel state information at receiver in IoT systems

J Hu, S Yan, X Zhou, F Shu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communications can hide the very existence of wireless transmissions and thus are
able to address privacy issues in numerous applications of the emerging Internet of Things …

Embedding covert information in broadcast communications

KSK Arumugam, MR Bloch - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze a two-receiver binary-input discrete memoryless broadcast channel, in which
the transmitter communicates a common message simultaneously to both receivers and a …

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 …

Covert MIMO communications under variational distance constraint

SY Wang, MR Bloch - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of covert communication over Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Additive
White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels is investigated, in which a transmitter attempts to …

Covert communication gains from adversary's uncertainty of phase angles

S Qiao, D Cao, Q Zhang, Y Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates the phase gain of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) covert
communication over complex-valued additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The …