The invention discloses a heterogeneous multimode multi-hop
covert communication method based on cooperation of single-hop opportunistic interference and an intelligent reflecting surface. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a
covert communication system model; for each candidate
single hop, dynamically controlling the on / off of a jammer according to a set interference threshold and an instantaneous channel state; in a
single hop of starting interference, a reflection
signal and a direct
signal are superposed in the same phase at a receiving end through intelligent reflection
surface phase matching, so that the receiving
signal power is maximized; transmitting and interference power are jointly optimized, and the single-hop
throughput is maximized under the condition that the concealment constraint is met; screening available single hops meeting the concealment requirement in the network and communication
modes of the available single hops, and selecting the optimal mode of each
single hop; and constructing a
directed graph based on the available single hops, and selecting an end-to-end transmission path which enables the minimum
throughput of the path to be maximum by taking the
throughput of the single hops as an edge weight. According to the invention, the overall optimization of end-to-end throughput performance and low detectability is realized.