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 …

A review of recent advances in coordination between unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

Y Ding, B Xin, J Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) has received increasing attention in recent years. The list of successful applications …

Covert communication assisted by UAV-IRS

C Wang, X Chen, J An, Z Xiong, C Xing… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the benefits of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS),
they can be combined to further enhance the communication performance. However, the …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Performance analysis and optimization for jammer-aided multiantenna UAV covert communication

H Du, D Niyato, YA Xie, Y Cheng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their
high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing …

Robust trajectory and transmit power optimization for secure UAV-enabled cognitive radio networks

Y Zhou, F Zhou, H Zhou, DWK Ng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve spectral efficiency. However, the
secure performance of a secondary network achieved by using physical layer security …

UAV-relayed covert communication towards a flying warden

X Chen, M Sheng, N Zhao, W Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the ever increasing of information privacy requirement, covert communication has
gained more and more attention, whose effective range is limited by the trade-off between …