Abstract:In order to improve the security of covert information transmission in network steganography, a decoy method of multi-level steganography based on vertical multiprotocol collaboration was proposed. The proposed method consisted of 2 levels. The upper level was used to carry the decoy message to deceive the detector. The lower level used the vertical relationship of multiprotocol to encode steganogram. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more undetectable than others due to the usage of decoy message and multilevel steganography.