期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
卷 16, 期 -, 页码 1104-1116出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2020.3029902
关键词
Physical layer security; covert wireless communications; channel uncertainty; channel training; quasi-static fading channel
The study reveals that in covert communications over quasi-static block fading channels, the adversary's detection performance is not improved by having perfect channel state information (CSI), allowing for covert transmission design without considering channel uncertainty. The optimal and suboptimal closed-form solution to covert transmission design is obtained, demonstrating fundamental differences in design compared to non-fading AWGN channels.
Covert communications enable a transmitter to send information reliably in the presence of an adversary, who looks to detect whether the transmission took place or not. We consider covert communications over quasi-static block fading channels, where users suffer from channel uncertainty. We investigate the adversary Willie's optimal detection performance in two extreme cases, i.e., the case of perfect channel state information (CSI) and the case of channel distribution information (CDI) only. It is shown that in the large detection error regime, Willie's detection performances of these two cases are essentially indistinguishable, which implies that the quality of CSI does not help Willie in improving his detection performance. This result enables us to study the covert transmission design without the need to factor in the exact amount of channel uncertainty at Willie. We then obtain the optimal and suboptimal closed-form solution to the covert transmission design. Our result reveals fundamental difference in the design between the case of quasi-static fading channel and the previously studied case of non-fading AWGN channel.
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