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 …

Covert transmission assisted by intelligent reflecting surface

J Si, Z Li, Y Zhao, J Cheng, L Guan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert transmission is studied for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided communication
system, where Alice aims to transmit messages to Bob without being detected by the warden …

Proactive eavesdropping via jamming over short packet suspicious communications with finite blocklength

D Xu, H Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Short packet communications play key roles in the Internet-of-Things. Conventional
Shannon's coding theorem is not applicable for short packet communications, and the …

A covert jamming scheme against an intelligent eavesdropper in cooperative cognitive radio networks

Y Wen, L Liu, J Li, X Hou, N Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we design a covert jamming scheme against an intelligent Eve towards physical
layer security in a cooperative cognitive radio networks. To protect the primary message …

Covert rate study for full-duplex D2D communications underlaid cellular networks

Y Yang, B Yang, S Shen, Y She… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaid cellular networks have emerged as a
promising network architecture to provide extended coverage and high data rate for various …

Distance-angle beamforming for covert communications via frequency diverse array: Toward two-dimensional covertness

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, J Wang, S Xiao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the beamforming schemes via the novel frequency diverse array
(FDA) on enhancing covert communications performance. We first consider the ideal …

Optimal probabilistic constellation shaping for covert communications

S Ma, Y Zhang, H Sheng, H Li, J Shi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the optimal probabilistic constellation shaping design for covert
communication systems from a practical view. Different from conventional covert …

Joint selection of FD/HD and AF/DF for covert communication in two-hop relay systems

Y Liu, H Wu, X Jiang - Ad Hoc Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the covert communication in a two-hop relay system consisting of a
transmitter, a relay, a receiver and a warden, where the relay can flexibly select between the …

FDA-Aided Covert Communication Against Multiple Wardens

Z Cheng, J Si, Z Li, T Wang, L Guan… - IEEE Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The frequency diverse array (FDA) technology plays an important role in covert
communication. In this letter, we consider a FDA-aided covert communication system with …

Joint pilot design and beamforming optimization in massive MIMO surveillance systems

C Kai, X Zhang, X Hu, W Huang - China Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel joint channel estimation and beamforming scheme for the
massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-division duplexing (FDD) wireless …