Physical layer key generation methods for arbitrary fading channels

RK Sharma, JW Wallace - 2011 IEEE International Symposium …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two methods are developed that can be applied to generate secret keys automatically from
fading propagation channels that are reciprocal but have arbitrary (ie non Gaussian) …

Secure physical-layer key generation protocol and key encoding in wireless communications

A Limmanee, W Henkel - 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communication between two nodes in a multi-path, multi-hop network does not
require that the forward transmission path and the reverse one are the same. However, if a …

Secure physical layer key generation schemes: Performance and information theoretic limits

J Wallace - 2009 IEEE International Conference on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is growing interest in wireless security methods that provide strong or even perfect
secrecy by taking advantage of features of the physical propagation channel. In advantage …

Physical layer key generation in wireless networks: challenges and opportunities

K Zeng - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer key generation that exploits reciprocity and randomness of wireless fading
channels has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. Although theoretical …

Key error rates in physical layer key generation: Theoretical analysis and measurement-based verification

OA Topal, GK Kurt, B Özbek - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Channel gains are frequently used to obtain a secret key that can be used for encryption in
physical layer security systems. However, the channel gains captured by the nodes may not …

Physical-layer key generation and reconciliation

J Wallace, R Mehmood, R Sharma, W Henkel… - … in Interference Limited …, 2016 - Springer
Physical layer security is a technique that makes use of the physical communication channel
or medium to provide additional robustness to eavesdroppers and attackers. Key …

On the using of Rényi's quadratic entropy for physical layer key generation

F Zhan, Z Zhao, Y Chen, N Yao - Computer Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
As a promising way for establishing secret keys, physical layer key generation has been
broadly studied, which typically extracts secret keys with wireless channel characteristics …

Improved generation efficiency for key extracting from wireless channels

X Sun, W Xu, M Jiang, C Zhao - 2011 IEEE international …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer secret key can be extracted from wireless fading channels based on channel
quantization with guardband (CQG). In this paper, we analyze the key generation efficiency …

Performance of secret key generation in non stationary channels

T Mazloum, A Sibille - 2015 9th European Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Secret key generation from the randomness provided by random channels is currently
considered as one way to improve security in wireless communications at the physical layer …

On the key generation from correlated wireless channels

J Zhang, B He, TQ Duong… - IEEE Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates the secret key capacity of key generation from correlated wireless
channels in a source model. We systematically study a practical scenario by taking into …