Optimal Routing and Link Configuration for Covert Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

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Hauptverfasser: Gillani, Amna, Lorenzo, Beatriz, Ghaderi, Majid, Dagefu, Fikadu, Goeckel, Dennis
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Gillani, Amna
Lorenzo, Beatriz
Ghaderi, Majid
Dagefu, Fikadu
Goeckel, Dennis
author_facet Gillani, Amna
Lorenzo, Beatriz
Ghaderi, Majid
Dagefu, Fikadu
Goeckel, Dennis
contents Nodes in contemporary radio networks often have multiple interfaces available for communication: WiFi, cellular, LoRa, Zigbee, etc. This motivates understanding both link and network configuration when multiple communication modalities with vastly different capabilities are available to each node. In conjunction, covertness or the hiding of radio communications is often a significant concern in both commercial and military wireless networks. We consider the optimal routing problem in wireless networks when nodes have multiple interfaces available and intend to hide the presence of the transmission from attentive and capable adversaries. We first consider the maximization of the route capacity given an end-to-end covertness constraint against a single adversary and we find a polynomial-time algorithm for optimal route selection and link configuration. We further provide optimal polynomial-time algorithms for two important extensions: (i) statistical uncertainty during optimization about the channel state information for channels from system nodes to the adversary; and, (ii) maintaining covertness against multiple adversaries. Numerical results are included to demonstrate the gains of employing heterogeneous radio resources and to compare the performance of the proposed approach versus alternatives.
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Gillani, Amna
Lorenzo, Beatriz
Ghaderi, Majid
Dagefu, Fikadu
Goeckel, Dennis
Signal Processing
Networking and Internet Architecture
Nodes in contemporary radio networks often have multiple interfaces available for communication: WiFi, cellular, LoRa, Zigbee, etc. This motivates understanding both link and network configuration when multiple communication modalities with vastly different capabilities are available to each node. In conjunction, covertness or the hiding of radio communications is often a significant concern in both commercial and military wireless networks. We consider the optimal routing problem in wireless networks when nodes have multiple interfaces available and intend to hide the presence of the transmission from attentive and capable adversaries. We first consider the maximization of the route capacity given an end-to-end covertness constraint against a single adversary and we find a polynomial-time algorithm for optimal route selection and link configuration. We further provide optimal polynomial-time algorithms for two important extensions: (i) statistical uncertainty during optimization about the channel state information for channels from system nodes to the adversary; and, (ii) maintaining covertness against multiple adversaries. Numerical results are included to demonstrate the gains of employing heterogeneous radio resources and to compare the performance of the proposed approach versus alternatives.
title Optimal Routing and Link Configuration for Covert Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
topic Signal Processing
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07059