Optimal pulse-position modulation order and transmit power in covert communications
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Publisher
IEEE
School
School of Science
RAS ID
52150
Funders
National Key Research and Development Program of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
Abstract
This work tackles the joint optimization of the modulation order L and transmit power P of pulse-position modulation (PPM) in covert communications. Specifically, we consider two scenarios where L used by the PPM at a transmitter Alice for communicating with a receiver Bob is known and unknown to the warden Willie, respectively. In the former scenario, our numerical examination obtained based on our analysis indicates that the optimal L is generally 2 , which is mainly due to the fact that Willie's detection performance increases with L when he knows it. Interestingly, in the latter scenario, we show that the optimal L is 2 when the covertness constraint is strict, while it is 4 when the covertness constraint is relaxed. The main reason is that Willie's detection performance does not depend on L when he does not know it, and the bit error rate for L = 2 is close to that for L = 4 when the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely low caused by the strict covertness constraint, while L = 2 requires less bandwidth and may achieve a higher bandwidth efficiency. Furthermore, we theoretically prove that the covert communication performance is better when Willie does not know L relative to when he knows L.
DOI
10.1109/TVT.2022.3151197
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Li, R., Cui, J., Huang, T., Yang, L., & Yan, S. (2022). Optimal pulse-position modulation order and transmit power in covert communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 71(5), 5570-5575.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2022.3151197