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This article presents a novel method for establishing an information theoretically secure encryption key over wireless channels. It exploits the fact that data transmission over wireless links is accompanied by packet error, while noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Amir K. Khandani

In this work we explore the security of secret keys generated via the electromagnetic reciprocity of the wireless fading channel. Identifying a new sophisticated colluding attack, we explore the information-theoretic-security for such keys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Robert Malaney

Three closely-related polynomial-based group key pre-distribution schemes have recently been proposed, aimed specifically at wireless sensor networks. The schemes enable any subset of a predefined set of sensor nodes to establish a shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Chris J Mitchell

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) is a promising technology to obtain symmetric keys between a pair of wireless communication users in a plug-and-play manner. The shared entropy source almost entirely comes from the intrinsic randomness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ning Gao , Yu Han , Nannan Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

We consider a pair-wise independent network where every pair of terminals in the network observes a common pair-wise source that is independent of all the sources accessible to the other pairs. We propose a method for secret key agreement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chunxuan Ye , Alex Reznik

With the emergence of 5G low latency applications, such as haptics and V2X, low complexity and low latency security mechanisms are sought. Promising lightweight mechanisms include physical unclonable functions (PUF) and secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Martin Reed , Leila Musavian

Wireless devices resorting to event-triggered communications have been proved to suffer critical privacy issues, due to the intrinsic leakage associated with radio-frequency (RF) emissions. In this paper, we move the attack frontier forward…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Gabriele Oligeri , Savio Sciancalepore , Simone Raponi , Roberto Di Pietro

Physical-layer key generation (PLKG) has emerged as a promising technique to secure next-generation wireless networks by exploiting the inherent properties of the wireless channel. However, PLKG faces fundamental challenges in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Poorya Mollahosseini , Yasaman Ghasempour

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of large number of low-cost, resource-constrained sensor nodes. The constraints of the wireless sensor node is their characteristics which include low memory, low computation power, they are deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-13 George W. Kibirige , Camilius Sanga

Secret-key generation and agreement based on wireless channel reciprocity offers a promising avenue for securing IoT networks. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on the similarity of instantaneous channel measurement samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nora Basha , Bechir Hamdaoui , Attila A. Yavuz , Thang Hoang , Mehran Mozaffari Kermani

The physical-layer key generation is a lightweight technique to generate secret keys from wireless channels for resource-constrained Internet of things (IoT) applications. The security of key generation relies on spatial decorrelation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Lu Yang , Yansong Gao , Junqing Zhang , Seyit Camtepe , Dhammika Jayalath

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been increasingly attacked by hackers. Recent studies have shown that CPS are especially vulnerable to insider attacks, in which case the attacker has full knowledge of the systems configuration. To better…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-30 Michael Biehler , Zhen Zhong , Jianjun Shi

Generating keys and keeping them secret is critical in secure communications. Due to the "open-air" nature, key distribution is more susceptible to attacks in wireless communications. An ingenious solution is to generate common secret keys…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Jizhong Zhao , Wei Xi , Jinsong Han , Shaojie Tang , Xiangyang Li , Yunhao Liu , Yihong Gong , Zehua Zhou

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) based on wireless channels is a lightweight technique to establish secure keys between legitimate communication nodes. Recently, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been leveraged to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Chen Chen , Junqing Zhang , Tianyu Lu , Magnus Sandell , Liquan Chen

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research community due their wide range of applications. Unfortunately, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research community due their wide range of applications. Unfortunately, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-09 Jaydip Sen , Sripad Krishna

Conventionally, secrecy is achieved using cryptographic techniques beyond the physical layer. Recent studies raise the interest of performing encryption within the physical layer by exploiting some unique features of the physical wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-19 Suzhi Bi , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying Jun Zhang

Physical-layer security (PLS) has the potential to strongly enhance the overall system security as an alternative to or in combination with conventional cryptographic primitives usually implemented at higher network layers. Secret-key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 François Rottenberg , Trung-Hien Nguyen , Jean-Michel Dricot , François Horlin , Jérôme Louveaux

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are currently used in different industrial and consumer applications, such as earth monitoring, health related applications, natural disaster prevention, and many other areas. Security is one of the major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Y. Maleh , A. Ezzati

The problem of simultaneously generating a secret key (SK) and private key (PK) pair among three terminals via public discussion is investigated, in which each terminal observes a component of correlated sources. All three terminals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Huishuai Zhang , Lifeng Lai , Yingbin Liang , Hua Wang