Improving Audio Steganography Transmission over Various Wireless Channels

Faculty Engineering Year: 2025
Type of Publication: ZU Hosted Pages: 106
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Journal: Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks MDPI Volume:
Keywords : Improving Audio Steganography Transmission over Various Wireless    
Abstract:
Ensuring the security and privacy of confidential data during transmission is a critical challenge, necessitating advanced techniques to protect against unwarranted disclosures. Steganography, a concealment technique, enables secret information to be embedded in seemingly harmless carriers such as images, audio, and video. This work proposes two secure audio steganography models based on the least significant bit (LSB) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) techniques for concealing different types of multimedia data (i.e., text, image, and audio) in audio files, representing an enhancement of current research that tends to focus on embedding a single type of multimedia data. The first model (secured model (1)) focuses on high embedding capacity, while the second model (secured model (2)) focuses on improved security. The performance of the two proposed secure models was tested under various conditions. The models’ robustness was greatly enhanced using convolutional encoding with binary phase shift keying (BPSK). Experimental results indicated that the correlation coefficient (Cr) of the extracted secret audio in secured model (1) increased by 18.88% and by 16.18% in secured model (2) compared to existing methods. In addition, the Cr of the extracted secret image in secured model (1) was improved by 0.1% compared to existing methods. The peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the steganography audio of secured model (1) was improved by 49.95% and 14.44% compared to secured model (2) and previous work, respectively. Furthermore, both models were evaluated in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system over various wireless channels, i.e., Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), fading, and SUI-6 channels. In order to enhance the system performance, OFDM was combined with differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulation and convolutional coding. The results demonstrate that secured model (1) is highly immune to noise generated by wireless channels and is the optimum technique for secure audio steganography on noisy communication channels. Keywords: steganography (Stego); discrete wavelet transform (DWT); least significant bit (LSB); Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN); binary phase shift keying (BPSK); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR); differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Stanford University Interim (SUI-6)
   
     
 
       

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