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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

Secret key generation in physical layer security exploits the unpredictable random nature of wireless channels. The millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels have limited multipath and channel randomness in static environments. In this paper, for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Shubo Yang , Han Han , Yihong Liu , Weisi Guo , Zhibo Pang , Lei Zhang

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 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

A secret-key generation scheme based on a layered broadcasting strategy is introduced for slow-fading channels. In the model considered, Alice wants to share a key with Bob while keeping the key secret from Eve, who is a passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) assisted physical layer key generation has shown great potential to secure wireless communications by smartly controlling signals such as phase and amplitude. However, previous studies mainly focus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Ningya Xu , Guoshun Nan , Xiaofeng Tao

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

Key generation, a pillar in physical-layer security (PLS), is the process of the exchanging signals from two legitimate users (Alice and Bob) to extract a common key from the random, common channels. The drawback of extracting keys from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Hibatallah Alwazani , Anas Chaaban

Secret key generation (SKG) between authenticated devices is a pivotal task for secure communications. Diffie-Hellman (DH) is de-facto standard but not post-quantum secure. In this paper, we shall invent and analyze a new security primitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Gerhard Wunder , Axel Flinth , Daniel Becker , Benedikt Groß

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

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

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 (PHY) steganography conceals secrets by making subtle modifications to transmitted radio waveforms, which can be applied to establish covert communication systems. Given the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi infrastructures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Jiamu Guo , Hailang Jia , Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Linning Peng , Liquan Chen

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

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

Recently, channel state information (CSI) at the physical-layer has been utilized to detect spoofing attacks in wireless communications. However, due to hardware impairments and communication noise, the CSI cannot be estimated accurately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Chu Li , Aydin Sezgin

By exploiting multipath fading channels as a source of common randomness, physical layer (PHY) based key generation protocols allow two terminals with correlated observations to generate secret keys with information-theoretical security.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-08 Qian Wang , Kaihe Xu , Kui Ren

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

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 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