Covert Communications through Imperfect Cancellation

25 Jan 2022  ·  Daniel Chew, Christine Nguyen, Samuel Berhanu, Chris Baumgart, A. Brinton Cooper ·

We propose a method for covert communications using an IEEE 802.11 OFDM/QAM packet as a carrier. We show how to hide the covert message so that the transmitted signal does not violate the spectral mask specified by the standard, and we determine its impact on the OFDM packet error rate. We show conditions under which the hidden signal is not usable and those under which it can be retrieved with a usable bit error rate (BER). The hidden signal is extracted by cancellation of the OFDM signal in the covert receiver. We explore the effects of the hidden signal on OFDM parameter estimation and the covert signal BER. We conclude with an experiment using Over-The-Air recordings of 802.11 packets, inject the hidden

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