Wu, Yujie;
Xing, Chengwen;
Tang, Jie;
Zhao, Nan;
Zhang, Xiu Yin;
Wong, Kai-Kit;
Karagiannidis, George K;
(2025)
Covert ISAC: Towards Collusive Detection.
In:
ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications.
(pp. pp. 3273-3278).
IEEE: Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Abstract
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is seen as a future solution to frequency congestion due to its excellent ability to simultaneously support target sensing and information transmission. However, it also introduces a potential security threat due to the sensing behavior. In this paper, we propose a covert ISAC scheme against collusive wardens. In particular, a dual-function base station continuously sense an aerial target while communicating with a ground receiver. First, we derive a closed-form expression of each warden's detection outage probability to obtain the global detection outage probability. Then, we jointly optimize the communication and sensing beamformings to maximize the covert transmission rate under the worst case that all wardens can collusively adjust their detection thresholds to achieve the best detection. To tackle this non-convex optimization problem, an iteration scheme is proposed. Numerical results demonstrate the validity of the proposed covert ISAC scheme.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Covert ISAC: Towards Collusive Detection |
| Event: | ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications |
| Dates: | 8 Jun 2025 - 12 Jun 2025 |
| ISBN-13: | 979-8-3315-0521-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11160765 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/icc52391.2025.11160765 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Integrated sensing and communication, covert communication, collusive detection |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215962 |
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