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This paper investigates the role of the eavesdropper's statistics in the implementation of a practical secret-key generation system. We carefully conduct the information-theoretic analysis of a secret-key generation system from wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Alexandre J. Pierrot , Rémi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

We consider secret key generation from relative localization information of a pair of nodes in a mobile wireless network in the presence of a mobile eavesdropper. Our problem can be categorized under the source models of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Onur Gungor , Fangzhou Chen , C. Emre Koksal

Key generation is a promising technique to bootstrap secure communications for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that have no prior knowledge between each other. In the past few years, a variety of key generation protocols and systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Weitao Xu , Junqing Zhang , Shunqi Huang , Chengwen Luo , Wei Li

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

In this paper, the feasibility of implementing a lightweight key distribution scheme using physical layer security for secret key generation (SKG) is explored. Specifically, we focus on examining SKG with the received signal strength (RSS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Amitha Mayya , Arsenia Chorti , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

This study introduces a decentralized approach to secure wireless communication using a cryptographic secret key generation algorithm among distributed nodes. The system model employs Gaussian prime numbers, ensuring the collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ertugrul Alper , Eray Guven , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Secure communication over a memoryless wiretap channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Traditional information-theoretic security methods require an advantage for the main channel over the eavesdropper channel to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Wireless radio channels are known to contain information about the surrounding propagation environment, which can be extracted using established wireless sensing methods. Thus, today's ubiquitous wireless devices are attractive targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Paul Staat , Simon Mulzer , Stefan Roth , Veelasha Moonsamy , Markus Heinrichs , Rainer Kronberger , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar

Traditional cryptography assumes an eavesdropper receives an error-free copy of the transmitted ciphertext. Wyner's wiretap channel model recognizes that at the physical layer both the intended receiver and the passive eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K Harrison , Steven W. McLaughlin

Secret key generation at the physical layer is expected to be a fundamental enabler for next-generation networks. We consider a network where the user equipment is a drone and propose a novel secret key generation solution when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Mattia Piana , Stefano Tomasin

Physical layer approaches for generating secret encryption keys for wireless systems using channel information have attracted increased interest from researchers in recent years. This paper presents a new approach for calculating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 John A. Snoap

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

In this paper, the impact of in-band full-duplex (IBFD) wireless communications on secret key generation via physical layer channel state information is investigated. A key generation strategy for IBFD wireless devices to increase the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Alireza Sadeghi , Michele Zorzi , Farshad Lahouti

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

Advanced fifth generation (5G) and beyond (B5G) communication networks have revolutionized wireless technologies, supporting ultra-high data rates, low latency, and massive connectivity. However, they also introduce vulnerabilities,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Maria-Lamprini A. Bartsioka , Ioannis A. Bartsiokas , Panagiotis K. Gkonis , Dimitra I. Kaklamani , Iakovos S. Venieris

Fundamental limits of secret-key agreement over reciprocal wireless channels are investigated. We consider a two-way block-fading channel where the channel gains in the forward and reverse links between the legitimate terminals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Ashish Khisti

Harnessing quantum processes is an efficient method to generate truly indeterministic random numbers, which are of fundamental importance for cryptographic protocols, security applications or Monte-Carlo simulations. Recently, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Johannes Thewes , Carolin Lüders , Marc Aßmann

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

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have been used to support low cost and mobile bi-directional communications for the Internet of Things (IoT), smart city and a wide range of industrial applications. A primary security concern of LPWAN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Debraj Basu , Tianbo Gu , Prasant Mohapatra

Quantum key distribution (QKD) establishes secure links between remote communication parties. As a key problem for various QKD protocols, security analysis gives the amount of secure keys regardless of the eavesdropper's computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Hongyi Zhou , Toshihiko Sasaki , Masato Koashi