Recent work has shown the impact of adversarial machine learning on deep
neural networks (DNNs) developed for Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML)
applications. While these attacks have been shown to be successful in
disrupting the performance of an eavesdropper, they fail to fully support the
primary goal of successful intended communication. To remedy this, a
communications-aware attack framework was recently developed that allows for a
more effective balance between the opposing goals of evasion and intended
communication through the novel use of a DNN to intelligently create the
adversarial communication signal. Given the near ubiquitous usage of forward
error correction (FEC) coding in the majority of deployed systems to correct
errors that arise, incorporating FEC in this framework is a natural extension
of this prior work and will allow for improved performance in more adverse
environments. This work therefore provides contributions to the framework
through improved loss functions and design considerations to incorporate
inherent knowledge of the usage of FEC codes within the transmitted signal.
Performance analysis shows that FEC coding improves the communications aware
adversarial attack even if no explicit knowledge of the coding scheme is
assumed and allows for improved performance over the prior art in balancing the
opposing goals of evasion and intended communications.