Intelligent Covert Communication:Recent Advances and Future Research Trends

作     者：Zan Li Jia Shi Jiangbo Si Lu Lv Lei Guan Benjian Hao Zhuangzhuang Tie Danyang Wang Chengwen Xing Tony Q.S.Quek Zan Li;Jia Shi;Jiangbo Si;Lu Lv;Lei Guan;Benjian Hao;Zhuangzhuang Tie;Danyang Wang;Chengwen Xing;Tony Q.S.Quek

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service NetworksSchool of Telecommunications EngineeringXidian UniversityXi'an 710071China School of Information and ElectronicsBeijing Institute of TechnologyBeijing 100081China Information System Technology and Design PillarSingapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore 487372Singapore 

出 版 物：《工程（英文）》 (Engineering)

年 卷 期：2025年第44卷第1期

页      面：101-111页

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基　　金：国家自然科学基金 国家科技攻关计划项目 

主　　题：Covert communication Artificial intelligence Wireless security 

摘      要：With the future substantial increase in coverage and network heterogeneity,emerging networks will encounter unprecedented security *** communication is considered a potential enhanced security and privacy solution for safeguarding future wireless networks,as it can enable monitors to detect the transmitter s transmission behavior with a low probability,thereby ensuring the secure trans-mission of private *** to its favorable security,it is foreseeable that covert communication will be widely used in various wireless communication settings such as medical,financial,and military ***,existing covert communication methods still present many challenges toward prac-tical *** particular,it is difficult to guarantee the effectiveness of covert schemes based on the randomness of eavesdropping environments,and it is challenging for legitimate users to detect weak cov-ert *** that emerging artificial-intelligence-aided transmission technologies can open up entirely new opportunities to address the above challenges,we provide a comprehensive review of recent advances and potential research directions in the field of intelligent covert communications in this ***,the basic concepts and performance metrics of covert communications are ***,exist-ing effective covert communication techniques in the time,frequency,spatial,power,and modulation domains are ***,this paper discusses potential implementations and challenges for intel-ligent covert communications in future networks.