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We have developed a method to calculate a secret key rate of a continuous-variable quantum-key-distribution scheme using four coherent states and postselection for a general model of Gaussian attacks. We assume that the transmission line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ryo Namiki , Akira Kitagawa , Takuya Hirano

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

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating at terahertz (THz) frequencies and consisting of a transmitter, Alice, that encodes secret keys using Gaussian-modulated coherent states, which are communicated to a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sushil Kumar , Soumya P. Dash , George C. Alexandropoulos

We propose a novel physical layer secret key generation method for the inter-spacecraft communication links. By exploiting the Doppler frequency shifts of the reciprocal spacecraft links as a unique secrecy source, spacecrafts aim to obtain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Ozan Alp Topal , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper we propose a two-way protocol of physical layer security using the method of privacy amplification against eavesdroppers. First we justify our proposed protocol by analyzing the physical layer security provided by the classic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

A novel framework for sharing common randomness and generating secret keys in wireless networks is considered. In particular, a network of users equipped with pulse oscillators (POs) and coupling mechanisms in between is considered. Such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Hessam Mahdavifar , Najme Ebrahimi

Physical-layer based key generation schemes exploit the channel reciprocity for secret key extraction, which can achieve information-theoretic secrecy against eavesdroppers. Such methods, although practical, have been shown to be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanjun Pan , Ziqi Xu , Ming Li , Loukas Lazos

Secret key generation (SKG) from wireless channel reciprocity has been demonstrated on WiFi, LTE, and LoRaWAN, but has never been demonstrated on 5G New Radio (NR) Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) and CSI Reference Signal (CSIRS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Sachinkumar B. Mallikarjun , Christoph Lipps , Marvin Reski , Sneha Bhattacharjee , Andreas Weinand , Hans D. Schotten

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) facilitates the extraction of unpredictable channel features for physical layer key generation (PKG), securing communications among legitimate users with symmetric keys. Previous works have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Ningya Xu , Guoshun Nan , Xiaofeng Tao , Na Li , Pengxuan Mao , Tianyuan Yang

This work presents a novel method to generate secret keys shared between a legitimate node pair (Alice and Bob) to safeguard the communication between them from an unauthorized node (Eve). To this end, we exploit the {\it reciprocal carrier…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Waqas Aman , Aneeqa Ijaz , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Dushanta Nalin K. Jayakody , Haris Pervaiz

This paper develops a new physical layer framework for secure two-way wireless communication in the presence of a passive eavesdropper, i.e., Eve. Our approach achieves perfect information theoretic secrecy via a novel randomized scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Aly El Gamal , Moustafa Youssef , Hesham El Gamal

We now advocate a novel physical layer security solution that is unique to our previously proposed GPSM scheme with the aid of the proposed antenna scrambling. The novelty and contribution of our paper lies in three aspects: 1/ principle:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Rong Zhang , Lie-Liang Yang , Lajos Hanzo

Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) is an emerging data-driven toolbox that captures our awareness of the wireless channel and enables efficient communication and resource allocation beyond the state of the art. In this work, we consider CKM for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ladan Khaloopour , Matthias Hollick , Vahid Jamali

This paper develops a novel framework for sharing secret keys using existing Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocols. Our approach exploits the multi-path nature of the wireless environment to hide the key from passive eavesdroppers. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-09 Mohamed Abdel Ghany , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

Deep learning based semantic communication(DLSC) systems have shown great potential of making wireless networks significantly more efficient by only transmitting the semantics of the data. However, the open nature of wireless channel and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qi Qin , Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Shaokang Wu , Xuefei Zhang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to provide a programmable wireless environment for physical layer security. By adjusting the reflecting coefficients, the IRS can change the attenuation and scattering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Huayan Guo

Wireless secret key generation (W-SKG) from shared randomness (e.g., from the wireless channel fading realizations), is a well established scheme that can be used for session key agreement. W-SKG approaches can be of particular interest in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , E. Veronica Belmega , Martin Reed

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

Alice and Bob want to share a secret key and to communicate an independent message, both of which they desire to be kept secret from an eavesdropper Eve. We study this problem of secret communication and secret key generation when two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Krishnan Eswaran , Kannan Ramchandran