Covert Transmission with Harvested Energy by a Wireless Powered Relay

05/23/2018
by   Jinsong Hu, et al.
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This work examines the possibility, performance limits, and associated costs for a wireless-powered relay to transmit its own covert information to a destination on top of forwarding the source's information. Since the source provides energy to the relay for forwarding its information, the source does not allow the relay's covert transmission and is to detect it. Considering the time switching (TS) and power splitting (PS) schemes for energy harvesting, where all the harvested energy is used for transmission at the relay, we derive the minimum detection error probability ξ^∗ at the source, based on which we determine the maximum effective covert rate Ψ^∗ subject to a given covertness constraint on ξ^∗. Our analysis shows that ξ^∗ is the same for the TS and PS schemes, which leads to the fact that the cost of achieving Ψ^∗ in both the two schemes in terms of the required increase in the energy conversion efficiency at the relay is the same, although the values of Ψ^∗ in these two schemes can be different in specific scenarios. For example, the TS scheme outperforms the PS scheme in terms of achieving a higher Ψ^∗ when the transmit power at the source is relatively low. If the covertness constraint is tighter than a specific value, it is the covertness constraint that limits Ψ^∗, and otherwise it is upper bound on the energy conversion efficiency that limits Ψ^∗.

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