Covert MIMO Communications under Variational Distance Constraint
arXiv:2102.11336 · doi:10.1109/TIFS.2021.3110048
Abstract
The problem of covert communication over Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels is investigated, in which a transmitter attempts to reliably communicate with a legitimate receiver while avoiding detection by a passive adversary. The covert capacity of the MIMO AWGN is characterized under a variational distance covertness constraint when the MIMO channel matrices are static and known. The characterization of the covert capacity is also extended to a class of channels in which the legitimate channel matrix is known but the adversary's channel matrix is only known up to a rank and a spectral norm constraint.
arXiv comment22 pages, 1 figure, accepted to Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
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