Practical physical layer security schemes for MIMO-OFDM systems using precoding matrix indices

CY Wu, PC Lan, PC Yeh, CH Lee… - IEEE journal on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In physical-layer security, secret bits are extracted from wireless channels. With the
assumption of channel reciprocity, the legitimate users share the same channel which is …

A Survey of Physical Layer Secret Key Generation Enhanced by Intelligent Reflecting Surface

E Xia, BJ Hu, Q Shen - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
As wireless communication scenarios grow more complicated, security issues are becoming
increasingly prominent and severe. In the Internet of Things and vehicle-to-everything …

Boosting secret key generation for IRS-assisted symbiotic radio communications

Y Liu, M Wang, J Xu, S Gong… - 2021 IEEE 93rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Symbiotic radio (SR) has recently emerged as a promising technology to boost spectrum
efficiency of wireless communications by allowing reflective communications underlying the …

Key establishment employing reconfigurable antennas: Impact of antenna complexity

R Mehmood, JW Wallace… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When establishing secret encryption keys using estimates of the reciprocal wireless
channel, the number of key bits that can be generated for a static or slowly varying …

LDPC code design aspects for physical-layer key reconciliation

N Islam, O Graur, A Filip… - 2015 IEEE Global …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate a physical-layer key reconciliation protocol for a reciprocal, flat
fading channel between two legitimate users. We consider the scenario when the n bits of …

A simple physical-layer key generation for frequency-division duplexing (FDD)

W Henkel, M Namachanja - 2021 15th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Common randomness of channels offers the possibility to create cryptographic keys without
the need for a key exchange procedure. Channel reciprocity for TDD (time-division …

Reciprocity for physical layer security with wireless FDD and in wireline communications

W Henkel, OA Graur, NS Islam, U Pagel… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reciprocity of the channel transfer functions between legitimate users changing
randomly delivers the common randomness used in physical-layer key generation. Time …

Quantization for physical layer security

O Graur, N Islam, W Henkel - 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a multi-level CSI quantization and key reconciliation scheme for physical layer
security. The noisy wireless channel estimates obtained by the users first run through a …

Variable guard band construction to support key reconciliation

A Filip, R Mehmood, J Wallace… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Key reconciliation procedures are needed to correct key differences that can arise as a
consequence of independent noise at the two ends of a reciprocal link. We assume a line-of …

Experimental assessment of secret key generation using parasitic reconfigurable aperture antennas

R Mehmood, JW Wallace - 2012 6th European Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The potential of automatically generating secret keys by randomly changing the state of a
reconfigurable antenna is investigated through direct measurement. Measurements are …