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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Secrecy and covert communications against UAV surveillance via multi-hop networks

HM Wang, Y Zhang, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for surveillance and monitoring gives
rise to the confidential information leakage challenge in both civilian and military …

Covert communication achieved by a greedy relay in wireless networks

J Hu, S Yan, X Zhou, F Shu, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert wireless communication aims to hide the very existence of wireless transmissions in
order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this paper, we examine the …

A comprehensive survey of physical layer security over fading channels: Classifications, applications, and challenges

P Yadav, S Kumar, R Kumar - Transactions on Emerging …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the open nature of wireless communication systems, the data transmission over
these networks are vulnerable to malicious attack. To safeguard the transmitted data …