Covert Communication with Gaussian Noise

We propose a covert communication protocol for the spread-spectrum multiple random access with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. No existing paper has studied covert communication for the random access channel. Our protocol assumes binary discrete phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation, an...

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Autores: Hayashi, Masahito|||0000-0003-3104-1000, Vázquez Castro, María Ángeles|||0000-0002-6292-7149
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:290770
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/290770
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3332861
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Receivers
Protocols
Codes
AWGN channels
Uncertainty
Symbols
Channel models
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Sumario:We propose a covert communication protocol for the spread-spectrum multiple random access with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. No existing paper has studied covert communication for the random access channel. Our protocol assumes binary discrete phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation, and it works well under imperfect channel state information (I-CSI) for both the legitimate and adversary receivers, which is a realistic assumption in the low power regime. Also, our method assumes that the legitimate users share secret variables in a similar way as the preceding studies. Although several studies investigated the covert communication for the point-to-point communication, no existing paper considers the covert communication under the above uncertainty assumption even for point-to-point communication. Our protocol under the above uncertainty assumption allows O(n) legitimate senders and O(n/n) active legitimate senders. Furthermore, our protocol can be converted to a protocol for point-to-point communication that works under the above uncertainty assumption.