Straggling for Covert Message Passing on Complete Graphs
This addresses covert communication challenges for mobile agents in adversarial environments, but appears incremental as it builds on existing models.
The paper tackles the problem of covert message passing in mobile multi-agent systems by introducing a protocol that increases communication covertness at the cost of higher delay, and shows how redundancy can manage this tradeoff.
We introduce a model for mobile, multi-agent information transfer that increases the communication covertness through a protocol which also increases the information transfer delay. Covertness is achieved in the presence of a warden who has the ability to patrol the communication channels. Furthermore we show how two forms of redundancy can be used as an effective tool to control the tradeoff between the covertness and the delay.