This paper presents a new spatial steganography model for covert communications over voice over internet protocol(Vo IP), providing a solution to the issue of increasing the capacity of covert Vo IP channels without c...This paper presents a new spatial steganography model for covert communications over voice over internet protocol(Vo IP), providing a solution to the issue of increasing the capacity of covert Vo IP channels without compromising the imperceptibility of the channels. Drawing from Orthogonal Modulation Theory in communications, the model introduced two concepts, orthogonal data hiding features and data hiding vectors, to covert Vo IP communications. By taking into account the variation characteristics of Vo IP audio streams in the time domain, a hiding vector negotiation mechanism was suggested to achieve dynamic self-adaptive steganography in media streams. Experimental results on Vo IP steganography show that the proposed steganographic method effectively depicted the spatial and temporal characteristics of Vo IP audio streams, and enhanced robustness against detection of steganalysis tools, thereby improving the security of covert Vo IP communications.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61271392U1405254&61272469)the British Government(Grant No.ktp008263)
文摘This paper presents a new spatial steganography model for covert communications over voice over internet protocol(Vo IP), providing a solution to the issue of increasing the capacity of covert Vo IP channels without compromising the imperceptibility of the channels. Drawing from Orthogonal Modulation Theory in communications, the model introduced two concepts, orthogonal data hiding features and data hiding vectors, to covert Vo IP communications. By taking into account the variation characteristics of Vo IP audio streams in the time domain, a hiding vector negotiation mechanism was suggested to achieve dynamic self-adaptive steganography in media streams. Experimental results on Vo IP steganography show that the proposed steganographic method effectively depicted the spatial and temporal characteristics of Vo IP audio streams, and enhanced robustness against detection of steganalysis tools, thereby improving the security of covert Vo IP communications.
