A Covert α-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems

Covert communication involves sending information in a manner that hides the presence of communication from recipients. This study introduces a strategy for ensuring covert communication by incorporating inverse systems to design an Extended Random Communication System (ERCS), where the carrier conv...

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Main Authors: Areeb Ahmed, Zoran Bosnic
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description Covert communication involves sending information in a manner that hides the presence of communication from recipients. This study introduces a strategy for ensuring covert communication by incorporating inverse systems to design an Extended Random Communication System (ERCS), where the carrier conveying the information is skewed alpha-stable random noise. In contrast to the approach that utilizes a single inverse system to provide covertness through a Random Communication System, this new technique integrates several m th-order inverse systems to transform skewed <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-stable random signals on the transmitting end and the corresponding inverse systems on the receiving end to invert the signals received from the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. The retrieval of the binary message stream from the inverted signals is performed by the ERCS receiver by performing an estimation using the maximum extreme-value method. By spreading the tasks of encoding and decoding across various inverse systems, the suggested approach raises the difficulty level for eavesdroppers in retrieving the hidden stream of a binary message without the knowledge of ERCS parameters that are pre-shared solely between the intended receiver and transmitter. The results from Monte Carlo simulations show that deploying the proposed ERCS not only leads to better Bit Error Rate (BER) performance but also provides increased covertness values, which proves the design&#x2019;s ability to enhance performance and security compared to earlier models. Simulation analysis also suggests that the utilization of multiple inverse systems in the proposed ERCS can enhance the physical-layer security of next-generation communication devices.
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spelling doaj-art-8d7750bd093f4ea09365adebe8b5091c2025-01-25T00:01:40ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113136751368510.1109/ACCESS.2025.352971210840175A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse SystemsAreeb Ahmed0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7011-4968Zoran Bosnic1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0501-7146Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaCovert communication involves sending information in a manner that hides the presence of communication from recipients. This study introduces a strategy for ensuring covert communication by incorporating inverse systems to design an Extended Random Communication System (ERCS), where the carrier conveying the information is skewed alpha-stable random noise. In contrast to the approach that utilizes a single inverse system to provide covertness through a Random Communication System, this new technique integrates several m th-order inverse systems to transform skewed <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-stable random signals on the transmitting end and the corresponding inverse systems on the receiving end to invert the signals received from the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. The retrieval of the binary message stream from the inverted signals is performed by the ERCS receiver by performing an estimation using the maximum extreme-value method. By spreading the tasks of encoding and decoding across various inverse systems, the suggested approach raises the difficulty level for eavesdroppers in retrieving the hidden stream of a binary message without the knowledge of ERCS parameters that are pre-shared solely between the intended receiver and transmitter. The results from Monte Carlo simulations show that deploying the proposed ERCS not only leads to better Bit Error Rate (BER) performance but also provides increased covertness values, which proves the design&#x2019;s ability to enhance performance and security compared to earlier models. Simulation analysis also suggests that the utilization of multiple inverse systems in the proposed ERCS can enhance the physical-layer security of next-generation communication devices.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10840175/α-stable distributionscovert communicationinverse systemrandom communication system
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A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems
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α-stable distributions
covert communication
inverse system
random communication system
title A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems
title_full A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems
title_fullStr A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems
title_full_unstemmed A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems
title_short A Covert &#x03B1;-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems
title_sort covert x03b1 stable noise based extended random communication by incorporating multiple inverse systems
topic α-stable distributions
covert communication
inverse system
random communication system
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10840175/
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