Robust secret key extraction from channel secondary random process
Author | Badawy A. |
Author | Elfouly T. |
Author | Khattab T. |
Author | Chiasserini C.-F. |
Author | Mohamed A. |
Author | Trinchero D. |
Available date | 2022-04-21T08:58:28Z |
Publication Date | 2016 |
Publication Name | Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
Resource | Scopus |
Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcm.2695 |
Abstract | The vast majority of existing secret key generation protocols exploit the inherent randomness of the wireless channel as a common source of randomness. However, independent noise added at the receivers of the legitimate nodes affects the reciprocity of the channel. In this paper, we propose a new simple technique to generate the secret key that mitigates the effect of noise. Specifically, we exploit the estimated channel to generate a secondary random process (SRP) that is common between the two legitimate nodes. We compare the estimated channel gain and phase to a preset threshold. The moving differences between the locations at which the estimated channel gain and phase exceed the threshold are the realization of our SRP. We study the properties of our generated SRP and derive a closed form expression for the probability mass function of the realizations of our SRP. We simulate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system and show that our proposed technique provides a drastic improvement in the key bit mismatch rate between the legitimate nodes when compared with the techniques that exploit the estimated channel gain or phase directly. In addition to that, the secret key generated through our technique is longer than that generated by conventional techniques. Moreover, we compute the conditional probabilities used to estimate the secret key capacity. Copyright 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
Language | en |
Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Subject | Channel estimation Frequency division multiplexing Local area networks Multiplexing equipment Network layers Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing Random processes Closed-form expression Conditional probabilities Conventional techniques OFDM systems Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems Physical layer security Probability mass function Secret key generations Cryptography |
Type | Conference Paper |
Pagination | 1389-1400 |
Issue Number | 11 |
Volume Number | 16 |
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