Consider a setting where Willie generates a Poisson stream of jobs and routes them to a single server that follows the first-in first-out discipline. Suppose there is an adversary Alice, who desires to receive service without being detected. We ask the question: what is the number of jobs that she can receive covertly, i.e. without being detected by Willie? In the case where both Willie and Alice jobs have exponential service times with respective rates \mu_1 and \mu_2, we demonstrate a phase-transition when Alice adopts the strategy of inserting a single job probabilistically when the server idles : over n busy periods, she can achieve a covert throughput, or equivalently an expected number of jobs inserted covertly , of O(n) when \mu_1 < 2\mu_2, O(n/\log n) when \mu_1 = 2\mu_2, and O(n^{\mu_2/\mu_1}) when \mu_1 > 2\mu_2. When both Willie and Alice jobs have general service times we establish an upper bound for the number of jobs Alice can get done covertly. This bound is related to the Fisher information. More general insertion policies are also investigated .
Consider a setting where Willie generates a Poisson stream of jobs and routes them to a single server that follows the first-in first-out discipline. Suppose there is an adversary Alice, who desires to receive service without being detected. We ask the question: what is the number of jobs that she can receive covertly, i.e. without being detected by Willie? In the case where both Willie and Alice jobs have exponential service times with respective rates \mu_1 and \mu_2, we demonstrate a phase-transition when Alice adopts the strategy of inserting a single job probabilistically when the server idles : over n busy periods, she can achieve a covert throughput, measured by the expected number of jobs covertly inserted , of O(n) when \mu_1 < 2\mu_2, O(n/\log n) when \mu_1 = 2\mu_2, and O(n^{\mu_2/\mu_1}) when \mu_1 > 2\mu_2. When both Willie and Alice jobs have general service times we establish an upper bound for the number of jobs Alice can execute covertly. This bound is related to the Fisher information. More general insertion policies are also discussed .
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