Animal Mimicry for Covert Communication with Arbitrary Output Distribution: Beyond the Assumption of Ignorance
2019
scientific article
english
- animal mimicry
- covert communication
- hidden Markov model
EN The paper describes a new method of embedding human communication in acoustic sequences mimicking animal communication. This is done to ensure a low probability of detection (LPD) transfer of covert messages. The proposed scheme mimics not only individual sounds, but also the imitated species’ communication structure. This paper presents a step forward in animal communication mimicry –from pure vocal imitation without regard for the plausibility of communication’s structure, through Zipf’s law-preserving scheme, to the mimicry of a known communication structure. Unlike previous methods, the updated scheme does not rely on third parties’ ignorance of the imitated species’ communication structure beyond Zipf’s law –instead, the new method enables one to encode information in a known zeroth-order Markov model. The paper describes a method of encoding an arbitrary message in a syntactically plausible, species-specific sequence of animal sounds through evolutionary means. A comparison with the previous iteration of the method is also presented.
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