The establishment of convenient and reliable cryptographic keys is not always feasible,
especially in low-powered wireless devices where a complex key management …

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless channels, wireless communication is vulnerable to
eavesdropping, message modification, and node impersonation. Securing the wireless …

Achieving wireless communication security exploiting the inherent properties of the physical
layer is a promising field. Received signal strength (RSS) based key generation is one of the …

Providing secure communication links between devices of low computational power has
been increasingly investigated during recent years. The need for fast and easy-to-implement …

By exploiting multipath fading channels as a source of common randomness, physical layer
(PHY) based key generation protocols allow two terminals with correlated observations to …

Physical layer key generation that exploits reciprocity and randomness of wireless fading
channels has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. Although theoretical …

The need for secured communication between computationally weak wireless devices has
driven the development of novel key generation protocols. Various schemes for extracting …

This manuscript aims to generate a secret key for a PHY layer to evaluate the channel
characteristics in wireless communications. An algorithmic approach is adopted for …

Due to the unavoidable shared nature of the wireless radio spectrum, providing security for
wireless communications presents unique challenges. Cryptographic keys have been used …

The generation of symmetric cryptographic keys out of wireless channel properties
represents a promising approach for the establishment of secured communication links …