Covert Communications via Full-Duplex User Relaying

In this paper, we investigate a covert communication system with a full-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relay and introduce a user-relaying scheme that maximizes the covert rate while ensuring the covertness requirement. In our system model, Alice (transmitter) sends regular data to Carol (regular us...

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發表在:Sensors
Main Authors: Jong Yeol Ryu, Jung Hoon Lee
格式: Article
語言:英语
出版: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
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在線閱讀:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/12/3614
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總結:In this paper, we investigate a covert communication system with a full-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relay and introduce a user-relaying scheme that maximizes the covert rate while ensuring the covertness requirement. In our system model, Alice (transmitter) sends regular data to Carol (regular user) and occasionally embeds covert data for Bob (covert user). Meanwhile, Willie (warden) monitors for covert transmissions. Carol assists Alice by acting as a full-duplex DF relay, decoding both data types via successive interference cancellation and relaying covert data using phase steering and power allocation to confuse Willie. Our proposed scheme adopts a novel approach in which the covert data received by Willie is perfectly canceled, optimizing Alice’s and Carol’s transmissions to maximize the covert rate while keeping Willie’s detection probability below a given threshold.
ISSN:1424-8220