Covert Communication over Noisy Channels: A Resolvability Perspective

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2334-2354

  Bloch, Matthieu R ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covert communications; low probability of detection; physical layer security; Shannon theory

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CODES (SYMBOLS); NETWORK LAYERS; TRANSMITTERS;

BINARY SYMMETRIC CHANNEL; CONCENTRATION INEQUALITY; COVERT COMMUNICATIONS; DISCRETE MEMORYLESS CHANNELS; LOW PROBABILITY OF DETECTIONS; PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY; SECRET COMMUNICATIONS; SHANNON THEORY;

CHANNEL CODING;

EID: 84968724672     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2016.2530089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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