Covert communications: A comprehensive survey

X Chen, J An, Z **ong, C **ng, 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 …

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 …

Covert communication assisted by UAV-IRS

C Wang, X Chen, J An, Z **ong, C **ng… - 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 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 …

Beamforming optimization for active intelligent reflecting surface-aided SWIPT

Y Gao, Q Wu, G Zhang, W Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently proposed to alleviate the product
path loss attenuation inherent in the IRS-aided cascaded channel. In this paper, we study an …

Covert transmission and secrecy analysis of RS-RIS-NOMA-aided 6G wireless communication systems

L Yang, W Zhang, PS Bithas, H Liu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate a novel covert communication system, where the legitimate
transmitter attempts to communicate with a covert user in the presence of a warden and the …

Achieving covert wireless communication with a multi-antenna relay

L Lv, Z Li, H Ding, N Al-Dhahir… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate covert wireless communication in a multi-antenna relay network, where the
relay transmits its own covert message to the destination when assisting the source's …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided multi-user communications: State-of-the-art techniques and open issues

M Munochiveyi, AC Pogaku, DT Do, AT Le… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication is considered as an exciting
research topic in academic and industrial communities since it provides an emerging …

Enhancing MIMO covert communications via intelligent reflecting surface

X Chen, TX Zheng, L Dong, M Lin… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) covert communication aided by
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) against a multi-antenna warden. We establish a design …