Satellite–Ground Covert Communications Against an Aerial Warden
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Abstract
Aerial wardens could pose significant security threats to satellite-ground communications due to their stronger received signals than legitimate ground users. To address this issue, the signals from all jamming satellites in low Earth orbit satellite networks, i.e., full jamming strategy (FJS), are utilized to counter the detection of the aerial warden. However, this worsens the communication quality of ground users. To improve it, we utilize the difference in visible spherical crowns between the ground user and the aerial warden due to the Earth blockage to propose the safeguard-zone strategy (SGS) via merely muting the jamming satellites visible to the ground user. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed strategies, we propose a stochastic geometry-based analytical framework to derive the covert probability and connection probability. To capture the trade-off between covertness and reliability, the effective covert rate, defined as the product of transmission rate, covert probability, and connection probability, is also analyzed and optimized. The results validate the accuracy of the analytical expressions and illustrate that SGS outperforms the FJS in the connection probability and effective covert rate with a small loss in covert probability, which can be compensated by increasing the transmit power or the number of jamming satellites.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.015 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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