Vulnerability and protection of channel state information in multiuser MIMO networks

YC Tung, S Han, D Chen, KG Shin - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications …, 2014dl.acm.org
Multiple-In-Multiple-Out (MIMO) offers great potential for increasing network capacity by
exploiting spatial diversity with multiple antennas. Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) further
enables Access Points (APs) with multiple antennas to transmit multiple data streams
concurrently to several clients. In MU-MIMO, clients need to estimate Channel State
Information (CSI) and report it to APs in order to eliminate interference between them. We
explore the vulnerability in clients' plaintext feedback of estimated CSI to the APs and …
Multiple-In-Multiple-Out (MIMO) offers great potential for increasing network capacity by exploiting spatial diversity with multiple antennas. Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) further enables Access Points (APs) with multiple antennas to transmit multiple data streams concurrently to several clients. In MU-MIMO, clients need to estimate Channel State Information (CSI) and report it to APs in order to eliminate interference between them. We explore the vulnerability in clients' plaintext feedback of estimated CSI to the APs and propose two advanced attacks that malicious clients can mount by reporting forged CSI: (1) sniffing attack that enables concurrently transmitting malicious clients to eavesdrop other ongoing transmissions; (2) power attack that enables malicious clients to enhance their own capacity at the expense of others?. We have implemented and evaluated these two attacks in a WARP testbed. Based on our experimental results, we suggest a revision of the current CSI feedback scheme and propose a novel CSI feedback system, called the CSIsec, to prevent CSI forging without requiring any modification at the client side, thus facilitating its deployment.
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