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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

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) can generate symmetric keys between two communication ends based on the reciprocal uplink and downlink channels. By smartly reconfiguring the radio signal propagation, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 You Chen , Guyue Li , Cunhua Pan , Lei Hu , Aiqun Hu

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) can significantly enhance the security of classic encryption schemes by enabling them to change their secret keys significantly faster and more efficient. However, due to the reliance of PLKG techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Vahid Shahiri , Hamid Behroozi , Ali Kuhestani

We propose and analyze secret key generation using intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication networks. To this end, we first formulate the minimum achievable secret key capacity for an IRS acting as a passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Zijie Ji , Phee Lep Yeoh , Deyou Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Yan Zhang , Zunwen He , Hao Yin , Yonghui Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a disruptive technology to enhance the performance of physical-layer key generation (PKG) thanks to its ability to smartly customize the radio environments. Existing RIS-assisted PKG methods are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lei Hu , Guyue Li , Xuewen Qian , Aiqun Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) exploits the reciprocity and randomness of wireless channels to generate a symmetric key between two legitimate communication ends. However, in multi-cell systems, PKG suffers from severe pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Lei Hu , Chen Sun , Guyue Li , Aiqun Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique to enhance the performance of physical-layer key generation (PKG) due to its ability to smartly customize the radio environments. Existing RIS-assisted PKG methods are mainly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Lei Hu , Guyue Li , Xuewen Qian , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Aiqun Hu

Physical layer key generation is a promising candidate for cryptographic key establishment between two wireless communication parties. It offers information-theoretic security and is an attractive alternative to public-key techniques. Here,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Paul Staat , Harald Elders-Boll , Markus Heinrichs , Rainer Kronberger , Christian Zenger , Christof Paar

Key generation is a promising technique to establish symmetric keys between resource-constrained legitimate users. However, key generation suffers from low secret key rate (SKR) in harsh environments where channel randomness is limited. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Tianyu Lu , Liquan Chen , Junqing Zhang , Chen Chen , Aiqun Hu

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) establishes cryptographic keys from highly correlated measurements of wireless channels, which relies on reciprocal channel characteristics between uplink and downlink, is a promising wireless security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xinwei Zhang , Guyue Li , Junqing Zhang , Aiqun Hu , Zongyue Hou , Bin Xiao

Physical layer secret key generation exploits the reciprocal channel randomness for key generation and has proven to be an effective addition security layer in wireless communications. However, static or scarcely random channels require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo

Physical layer security (PLS) is superior to classical cryptography techniques due to its notion of perfect secrecy and independence to an eavesdropper's computational power. One form of PLS arises when Alice and Bob (the legitimate users)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Hibatallah Alwazani , Anas Chaaban

This paper investigates physical-layer key generation (PLKG) in multi-antenna base station systems, by leveraging a fluid antenna system (FAS) to dynamically customize radio environments. Without requiring additional nodes or extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhiyu Huang , Guyue Li , Hao Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Physical layer key generation (PKG) is a promising means to provide on-the-fly shared secret keys by exploiting the intrinsic randomness of the radio channel. However, the performance of PKG is highly dependent on the propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Guyue Li , Lei Hu , Paul Staat , Harald Elders-Boll , Christian Zenger , Christof Paar , Aiqun Hu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the ability to alter the wireless environment by making changes in the impinging signal. While RIS has been extensively studied for enhancing wireless communications, its potential for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Vahid Shahiri , Guyue Li , Hamid Behroozi

This paper considers machine learning for physical layer security design for communication in a challenging wireless environment. The radio environment is assumed to be programmable with the aid of a meta material-based intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Yizhuo Song , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Faisal Tariq , Kai-Kit Wong , Apriana Toding

Deep learning-based physical-layer secret key generation (PKG) has been used to overcome the imperfect uplink/downlink channel reciprocity in frequency division duplexing (FDD) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xinwei Zhang , Guyue Li , Junqing Zhang , Linning Peng , Aiqun Hu , Xianbin Wang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a new paradigm that enables the reconfiguration of the wireless environment. Based on this feature, RIS can be employed to facilitate Physical-layer Key Generation (PKG). However, this technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Lei Hu , Guyue Li , Hongyi Luo , Aiqun Hu

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

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
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