IRS-Assisted covert communication with a BPP distributed warden outside a safety zone
Abstract
In this work, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted covert wireless communication system, in which the location of a warden Willie follows a binomial point process (BPP) distribution within a disk centered at O with a radius of R and the warden is outside a safety zone centered at C with a radius of r. The location of the safety zone can be anywhere (inside, outside, or having intersections) relative to the disk. We first analyze the detection performance of Willie for the cases with known channel state information (CSI) and unknown CSI, respectively, based on which we determine Willie's minimum detection error rate. Then, considering the geometric randomness of Willie's position inside the disk but outside the safety zone, the average minimum detection error rate is determined and adopted in the covertness constraint in the subsequent covert system design. Our examination first shows that the covert communication rate generally increases with R. However, more interestingly, whether the covert communication rate increases or decreases with r generally depends on the relative locations of the disk, the safety zone, and Alice. For example, when both the safety zone and Alice are on the same side of the disk center O, the covert rate increases with r, and vice versa.
Keywords
wireless communication, error analysis, signal processing, acoustics, safety, speech processing, system analysis and design
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Publication
1-1-2024
Publication Title
2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Publisher
IEEE
School
School of Science
RAS ID
70475
Funders
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.U22A2002, 62071234, and 62371004), the Australian Research Council discovery project (DP230100603), the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund (ZDKJ2021022), the Scientific Research Fund Project of Hainan University under Grant KYQD(ZR)-21008, and the University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province under Grant GXXT-2022-055.
Grant Number
ARC Number : DP230100603
Copyright
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First Page
12831
Last Page
12835
Comments
Z. Chen, S. Yan, X. Zhou, F. Shu, J. Sun and D. W. Kwan Ng, "IRS-Assisted Covert Communication with a BPP Distributed Warden outside a Safety Zone," ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 12831-12835, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447139