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LoRaWAN is an emerging Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology, which is gaining momentum thanks to its flexibility and ease of deployment. Conversely to other LPWAN solutions, LoRaWAN indeed permits the configuration of several…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Davide Magrin , Martina Capuzzo , Andrea Zanella

This paper investigates generation of a secret key from a reciprocal wireless channel. In particular we consider wireless channels that exhibit sparse structure in the wideband regime and the impact of the sparsity on the secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Tzu-Han Chou , Stark C. Draper , Akbar M. Sayeed

The multipath-rich wireless environment associated with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a fading channel response that is time-varying, location-sensitive, and uniquely shared by a given transmitter-receiver pair. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Chunxuan Ye , Suhas Mathur , Alex Reznik , Yogendra Shah , Wade Trappe , Narayan Mandayam

Physical layer key generation from the wireless channel is an emerging area of interest to provide confidentiality and authentication. One of the main challenges in this domain is to increase the length of the secret key while maintaining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Haji M. Furqan , Jehad M. Hamamreh , Huseyin Arslan

The basis of generating secret key from the common wireless channel at two communication parties is reciprocity. However, due to non-simultaneous measurements and unavoidable estimation error, bias always exists and key disagreement occurs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Xinrong Guan , Ning Ding , Yueming Cai , Weiwei Yang

In this paper, we investigate the uplink transmission performance of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks with regards to coexisting radio modules. We adopt long range (LoRa) radio technique as an example of the network of focus even though…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Geoffrey Ye Li , Julie A. McCann

In this paper, we consider the problem of secret key generation for multiple parties. Multi-user networks usually require a trusted party to efficiently distribute keys to the legitimate users and this process is a weakness against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ufuk Altun , Semiha T. Basaran , Gunes K. Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Long Range (LoRa) has become one of the most popular Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies, which provides a desirable trade-off among communication range, battery life, and deployment cost. In LoRa networks, several transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-13 Qihao Zhou , Jinyu Xing , Lu Hou , Rongtao Xu , Kan Zheng

The physical-layer secret key generation has emerged as a promising solution for establishing cryptographic keys by leveraging reciprocal and time-varying wireless channels. However, existing approaches suffer from low key generation rates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Guyue Li , Haiyu Yang , Junqing Zhang , Hongbo Liu , Aiqun Hu

It is well-known that wireless channel reciprocity together with fading can be exploited to generate a common secret key between two legitimate communication partners. This can be achieved by exchanging known deterministic pilot signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Rick Fritschek , Gerhard Wunder

Network planning is a fundamental task in wireless communications, primarily focused on guaranteeing adequate coverage for every network device. In this context, the quality of any planning effort strongly depends on the channel model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Cláudio Modesto , Lucas Mozart , Glauco Gonçalves , Cleverson Nahum , Bruno Castro , Aldebaro Klautau

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) are an emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm marked by low-power and long-distance communication. Among them, LoRa is widely deployed for its unique characteristics and open-source technology. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jialuo Du , Yidong Ren , Mi Zhang , Yunhao Liu , Zhichao Cao

Although the idea of using wireless links for covering large areas is not new, the advent of LPWANs has recently started changing the game. Simple, robust, narrowband modulation schemes permit the implementation of low-cost radio devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Luca Beltramelli , Aamir Mahmood , Patrik Österberg , Mikael Gidlund , Paolo Ferrari , Emiliano Sisinni

The development of the low power wide area network (LPWAN) for the internet of things (IoTs) is expected to grow widely, allowing remote monitoring of smart devices from a distance of up to several kilometers. This paper studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Van Dai Do

Appearing on the stage quite recently, the Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are currently getting much of attention. In the current paper we study the susceptibility of one LPWAN technology, namely LoRaWAN, to the inter-network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Konstantin Mikhaylov , Juha Petajajarvi , Janne Janhunen

Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies are gaining momentum for internet-of-things (IoT) applications since they promise wide coverage to a massive number of battery-operated devices using grant-free medium access. LoRaWAN, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Aamir Mahmood , Emiliano Sisinni , Lakshmikanth Guntupalli , Raúl Rondón , Syed Ali Hassan , Mikael Gidlund

Motivated by the increasing variance of suggested Internet of Things (IoT) applications and the lack of suitability of current wireless technologies in scalable, long range deployments, a number of diverging Low Power Wide Area (LPWA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Joseph Finnegan , Stephen Brown

The scale of wireless technologies penetration in our daily lives, primarily triggered by the Internet-of-things (IoT)-based smart cities, is beaconing the possibilities of novel localization and tracking techniques. Recently, low-power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Mahnoor Anjum , Muhammad Abdullah Khan , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi , Mikael Gidlund

In recent years, the use of Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is increasing for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In order to demonstrate the application of LPWAN technologies for a realistic smart metering scenario, we set-up…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Muhammad Nouman Rafi , Muhammad Muaaz

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