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 …

Physical layer covert communication in B5G wireless networks—its research, applications, and challenges

Y Jiang, L Wang, HH Chen, X Shen - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer covert communication is a crucial secure communication technology that
enables a transmitter to convey information covertly to a recipient without being detected by …

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 …

Covert communications for STAR-RIS-assisted industrial networks with a full duplex receiver and RSMA

Y Zhang, L Yang, X Li, K Guo… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate covert communication in simultaneously transmitting and
reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted networks with rate-splitting …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

H Du, D Niyato, YA **e, 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 …

Delay-constrained covert communications with a full-duplex receiver

F Shu, T Xu, J Hu, S Yan - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we consider delay-constrained covert communications with the aid of a full-
duplex (FD) receiver. Without delay constraints, it has been shown that the transmit power of …

Covert rate optimization of millimeter wave full-duplex communications

C Wang, Z Li, DWK Ng - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of full-duplex covert millimeter wave (mmWave)
communications, where a mmWave transmitter (Alice) sends information signals to its …