Multilevel-Coded Pulse-Position Modulation for Covert Communications Over Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2020.3019996MaRDI QIDQ5138788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ishaque Ashar Kadampot, Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Matthieu Bloch

Publication date 4 December 2020

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09695

zbMATH Keywords

binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BI-DMC)information-theoretic limits of covert communicationsoptimal low-complexity coding scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Source coding (94A29) Modulation and demodulation in information and communication theory (94A14)

Abstract: We develop a low-complexity coding scheme to achieve covert communications over binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BI-DMCs). We circumvent the impossibility of covert communication with linear codes by introducing non-linearity through the use of pulse position modulation (PPM) and multilevel coding (MLC). We show that the MLC-PPM scheme exhibits many appealing properties; in particular, the channel at a given index level remains stationary as the number of level increases, which allows one to use families of channel capacity- and channel resolvability-achieving codes to concretely instantiate the covert communication scheme.

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