Stealthy Communication over Adversarially Jammed Multipath Networks

Jianhan Song, Qiaosheng Zhang*, Swanand Kadhe, Mayank Bakshi, Sidharth Jaggi

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Abstract

We consider the problem of stealthy communication over a multipath network in the presence of an active adversary. The multipath network consists of multiple parallel noiseless links, and the adversary is able to eavesdrop and jam a subset of links. We consider two types of jamming-erasure jamming and overwrite jamming. We require the communication to be both stealthy and reliable, i.e., the adversary should be unable to detect whether or not meaningful communication is taking place, while the legitimate receiver should reconstruct any potential messages from the transmitter with high probability simultaneously. We provide inner and outer bounds on the stealthy capacities under both adversarial erasure and adversarial overwrite jamming.
Original languageEnglish
Article number9187804
Pages (from-to)7473-7484
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume68
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Sept 2020

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Keywords

  • adversarial jamming
  • information-theoretic security
  • low probability of detection
  • Stealthy communication

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