This invention discloses a UAV-assisted
covert communication method and
system under multi-monitoring node cooperation, belonging to the field of
wireless communication technology. The UAV-assisted
covert communication method under multi-monitoring node cooperation includes: establishing a legitimate link transmission model and a detection model for a
fusion center to perform binary
hypothesis testing on the legitimate
transmitter's transmission behavior; deriving the minimum detection error probability of the
fusion center; constructing a non-convex
optimization problem of the amplification and forwarding coefficients of the monitoring nodes, equivalently transforming it into an
optimization problem under unit norm constraints, and simplifying it into a one-dimensional
search problem with a
single variable, solving for the optimal amplification and forwarding coefficient direction; and optimizing the legitimate
transmitter power to maximize the effective
covert communication rate based on the monotonicity of
detection performance with respect to the legitimate
transmitter's transmission power. This invention achieves covert communication with low computational complexity,
low resource consumption, and high effective rate, and reveals the saturation effect of the benefits of cooperative detection.