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Covert Semantic Transmission in ISAC: Dual-Functional Waveform Design and Rectified Flow-Assisted Recovery
Jul 28, 2026
This paper proposes CoSMIC, a framework for semantic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) that embeds semantic information into waveforms while maintaining covertness and sensing fidelity.
CoSMIC is novel as it provides a theoretical framework for embedding semantic information into ISAC waveforms while maintaining covertness and sensing fidelity.
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Semantic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is envisioned as a promising paradigm for efficient and intelligent connectivity in future wireless networks. However, the open wireless channel exposes the dual-functional waveform to detection, which challenges the joint guarantee of covertness, sensing fidelity, and semantic accuracy. To address the challenge, we propose CoSMIC, a novel covertness-oriented semantic ISAC framework, where the sensing output is embedded into a dual-functional ISAC waveform through semantic modulation. Specifically, a semantic rotation coding scheme is established to map semantic latents onto the pairwise rotation and scaling of Gaussian reference sequences, which satisfies a derived closed-form covertness constraint by a differentiable budget projection. Moreover, the radar performance is analyzed to confirm an invariant matched-filter mainlobe response and a bounded output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) under the semantic embedding. Subsequently, a reliability-guided rectified flow (RFlow) refiner is designed to effectively reconstruct high-fidelity semantic representations from coarse observations. Simulation results demonstrate that CoSMIC improves the semantic reconstruction quality by 18% over diffusion-based baseline schemes with substantially reduced inference latency under strict covertness constraints, which validates the applicability to practical ISAC scenarios. The source code and video demonstrations are available at https://github.com/LanceAnlan/CoSMIC-covertness-oriented-semantic-ISAC-framework.
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