Author Identifier (ORCID)
Shihao Yan: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4586-1926
Abstract
This letter investigates time-sensitive covert communications aided by multiple friendly jammers that intermittently and collectively transmit artificial noise (AN). To maximize communication covertness while satisfying covert throughput and age of information (AoI) constraints, we jointly optimize the transmit probabilities of sensor data and AN. Specifically, we propose a novel differential evolution algorithm based on dynamic Thompson sampling (DE/DTS). By modeling adaptive operator selection as a multi-armed bandit problem, DE/DTS chooses the most suitable operator according to their historical performance. Simulations demonstrate that our scheme outperforms other baselines and reveal that as channel estimation errors increase, the probability for transmitting data becomes higher than that for transmitting AN.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
1-1-2025
Publication Title
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Publisher
IEEE
School
School of Science
Funders
Horizon Europe project INSTINCT (101139161) / Horizon Europe project UNITE (101129618) / CHIST-ERA project PASSIONATE (ANR-23-CHR4-0003-01, HIST-ERA-22-WAI-04) / France 2030 project ANR-PEPR Networks of the Future (NF-Founds 22-PEFT-0010) / Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX25_0747) / National Natural Science Foundation of China (62072250, 62401269 and U21B2003) / National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021QY0700) / Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20230415) / Horizon Europe project COVER (101086228) / Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (23KJB120007)
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Sun, X., Yin, S., Tian, W., Liu, G., Yan, S., Jorswieck, E., & Di Renzo, M. (2025). Joint transmit probabilities optimization for AOI-Constrained covert communications with multiple friendly jammers. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2025.3607032