Performance Analysis on Age of Information for Covert IoT Communication Systems

Danyang Wang, Jinxiu Wang, Xinyu Zhao, Ning Zhang, Hong Ning Dai, Zan Li

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the information freshness on covert communication in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The freshness of information is characterized by a recently introduced metric, termed as age of information (AoI). Specifically, without a feedback channel, each packet generated at the transmitter is only allowed to be transmitted during one time slot no matter whether it is successfully decoded at the receiver. In this case, the average AoI at the receiver and the average probability of error detection at the warden are derived. Then, the transmit power is optimized to minimize the AoI while guaranteeing the covertness requirement. On the other hand, with a perfect feedback channel, packet re-transmission is adopted to make the information fresh enough. The average AoI and the average probability of error detection are analyzed. Then, the transmit power is also optimized in this case. Simulation results reveal that the proposed scheme can minimize average AoI under the requirement of covertness, and the case using re-transmission with feedback achieves a lower AoI under the same requirement of covertness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Pages2224-2229
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683477
ISBN (Print)9781538683484
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 May 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 16 May 202220 May 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9837954/proceeding

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1550-3607
ISSN (Electronic)1938-1883

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period16/05/2220/05/22
Internet address

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

User-Defined Keywords

  • age of information
  • Covert wireless communications
  • Internet of Things
  • power optimization

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