A new frontier for IoT security emerging from three decades of key generation relying on wireless channels

J Zhang, G Li, A Marshall, A Hu, L Hanzo - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a transformative technology, which is revolutionizing our
everyday life by connecting everyone and everything together. The massive number of …

Securing wireless communications of the internet of things from the physical layer, an overview

J Zhang, TQ Duong, R Woods, A Marshall - Entropy, 2017 - mdpi.com
The security of the Internet of Things (IoT) is receiving considerable interest as the low
power constraints and complexity features of many IoT devices are limiting the use of …

High-agreement uncorrelated secret key generation based on principal component analysis preprocessing

G Li, A Hu, J Zhang, L Peng, C Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Random and high-agreement secret key generation from noisy wideband channels is
challenging due to the autocorrelation inside the channel samples and compromised cross …

Intelligent reflecting surface-assisted secret key generation with discrete phase shifts in static environment

X Hu, L Jin, K Huang, X Sun, Y Zhou… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer secret key generation is a promising candidate to achieve one-time-pad
encryption approach for the wireless communication system. However, in a static …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted secret key generation in quasi-static environments

T Lu, L Chen, J Zhang, K Cao… - IEEE Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a key generation protocol with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface
(RIS) to boost secret key rate (SKR) in quasi-static environments. Considering a passive …

Security analysis of triangle channel-based physical layer key generation in wireless backscatter communications

J Li, P Wang, L Jiao, Z Yan, K Zeng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ultra-low-power communications by
backscattering ambient radio frequency (RF) signals and harvesting energy simultaneously …

Experimental investigation on wireless key generation for low-power wide-area networks

H Ruotsalainen, J Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wireless key generation is a potential way to implement information-theoretically secure
key refreshment for the Internet of Things devices. The state-of-the-art work on key …

Key generation for internet of things: A contemporary survey

W Xu, J Zhang, S Huang, C Luo, W Li - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Key generation is a promising technique to bootstrap secure communications for the Internet
of Things devices that have no prior knowledge between each other. In the past few years, a …

An investigation of using loop-back mechanism for channel reciprocity enhancement in secret key generation

P Linning, G Li, J Zhang, R Woods… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer security key generation exploits unpredictable features from wireless
channels to achieve high security, which requires high reciprocity in order to set up …

Authenticated secret key generation in delay-constrained wireless systems

M Mitev, A Chorti, M Reed, L Musavian - EURASIP Journal on Wireless …, 2020 - Springer
With the emergence of 5G low-latency applications, such as haptics and V2X, low-
complexity and low-latency security mechanisms are needed. Promising lightweight …