UAV-enabled cooperative jamming for covert communications based on geometric method

Abstract

This work employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a jammer to aid a covert communication from a transmitter Alice to a receiver Bob, where the LAV transmits artificial noise (AN) with random power to deliberately create interference to a warden Willie. To maximize the system performance, we formulate an optimization problem to jointly design the UAV's trajectory and Alice's transmit power. The formulated optimization problem is non-convex that is difficult to tackle directly. To this end, this work, for the first time, develops a geometric (GM) method to solve the optimization problem. Our examination shows that the GM method can significantly outperforms a benchmark method in terms of achieving a higher average covert rate and the complexity of the GM method is lower than that of the benchmark method.

Keywords

Vehicular and wireless technologies, Transmitters, System performance, Receivers, Benchmark testing, Autonomous aerial vehicles, Taylor series

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Publication

8-25-2022

Volume

2022-June

Publication Title

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Publisher

IEEE

School

School of Science / ECU Security Research Institute

RAS ID

52328

Funders

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U19B2014, No. 62001094) / Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2019A1515111162) / China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2020M683290, 2021T140095) / Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. ZYGX2020J030)

Comments

Rao, H., Xiao, S., Yan, S., Wang, J., & Tang, W. (2022). UAV-enabled cooperative jamming for covert communications based on geometric method. In 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference:(VTC2022-Spring) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2022-Spring54318.2022.9860462

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10.1109/VTC2022-Spring54318.2022.9860462