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 …

Safeguarding next-generation multiple access using physical layer security techniques: A tutorial

L Lv, D Xu, RQ Hu, Y Ye, L Yang, X Lei… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the ever-increasing requirements of ultrahigh spectral efficiency, ultralow latency,
and massive connectivity, the forefront of wireless research calls for the design of advanced …

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 …

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 …

Low probability of detection communication: Opportunities and challenges

S Yan, X Zhou, J Hu, SV Hanly - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LPD communication has recently emerged as a new transmission technology to address
privacy and security in wireless networks. Recent studies have established the fundamental …

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 …

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 …

Intelligent reflecting surface assisted non-orthogonal multiple access

G Yang, X Xu, YC Liang - 2020 IEEE wireless communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and disruptive technology to achieve spectrum-,
energy, and cost-efficient wireless networks. In this paper, we consider an IRS-assisted non …

Covert communication in the presence of an uninformed jammer

TV Sobers, BA Bash, S Guha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work has established that when transmitter Alice wishes to communicate reliably to
recipient Bob without detection by warden Willie, with additive white Gaussian noise …