A Novel Covert Communication Method Based on WCDMA

Abstract

Covert communication can effectively improve the security of communication content, which has been widely used in wireless communication systems. Most approaches for covert communication are based on the principle of text-embedded in upper layer of the OSI model. In this paper, a novel covert communication scheme is proposed. This method takes advantage of scramble codes and message processing rules of the WCDMA system. It uses a downlink scramble code in the normal WCDMA uplink signal, so that the covert messages will not be received by the base station (BS) and the user equipment (UE). Simulation result shows that the proposed covert communication method has a low bit error rate (BER) performance, and will only make the signals of different business to a slightly lower data transmission rate.