Security and privacy for reconfigurable intelligent surface in 6G: A review of prospective applications and challenges

F Naeem, M Ali, G Kaddoum, C Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are expected to bring about an explosion of
accessible user information and novel technologies, along with new threats to terrestrial and …

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 …

Covert communication in UAV-assisted air-ground networks

X Jiang, X Chen, J Tang, N Zhao… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communication is a promising technique for future
wireless networks due to its characteristics of low cost and flexible deployment. However …

Covert mmWave communications with finite blocklength against spatially random wardens

R Ma, W Yang, X Guan, X Lu, Y Song… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate covert millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications with finite
blocklength, where a multiantenna transmitter sends covert messages to a legitimate …

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 …

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) …

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 …

Age of information for short-packet covert communication

W Yang, X Lu, S Yan, F Shu, Z Li - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we develop a new framework to jointly characterize covertness and timeliness
of short-packet communications, in which a new metric named covert age of information …