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 …

Secret key generation exploiting channel characteristics in wireless communications

K Ren, H Su, Q Wang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the broadcast nature of wireless channels, wireless communication is vulnerable to
eavesdropping, message modification, and node impersonation. Securing the wireless …

SmokeGrenade: An efficient key generation protocol with artificial interference

D Chen, Z Qin, X Mao, P Yang, Z Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leveraging a wireless multipath channel as the source of common randomness, many key
generation methods have been proposed according to the information-theory security …

Fast and scalable secret key generation exploiting channel phase randomness in wireless networks

Q Wang, H Su, K Ren, K Kim - 2011 Proceedings IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there has been great interest in physical layer security techniques that exploit the
randomness of wireless channels for securely extracting cryptographic keys. Several …

Experimental study on key generation for physical layer security in wireless communications

J Zhang, R Woods, TQ Duong, A Marshall, Y Ding… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a thorough experimental study on key generation principles, ie,
temporal variation, channel reciprocity, and spatial decorrelation, through a testbed …

Key generation from wireless channels: A review

J Zhang, TQ Duong, A Marshall, R Woods - Ieee access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Key generation from the randomness of wireless channels is a promising alternative to
public key cryptography for the establishment of cryptographic keys between any two users …

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 …

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 …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface for physical layer key generation: Constructive or destructive?

G Li, L Hu, P Staat, H Elders-Boll… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer key generation (PKG) is a promising means to provide on-the-fly shared
secret keys by exploiting the intrinsic randomness of the radio channel. However, the …

Secret key establishment using temporally and spatially correlated wireless channel coefficients

C Chen, MA Jensen - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When implementing data encryption and decryption in a symmetric cryptosystem, secure
distribution of the secret key to legitimate nodes can be a challenge. In this paper, we …