Artificial-noise-aided physical layer phase challenge-response authentication for practical OFDM transmission
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OA Location
Author(s)
Wu, X
Yan, Z
Ling, C
Xia, X-G
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel Artificial-Noise- Aided PHYsical layer Phase Challenge-Response Authentication Scheme (ANA-PHY-PCRAS) for practical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. In this new scheme, Tikhonov-distributed artificial noise is introduced to interfere with the phase-modulated key for resisting potential key-recovery attacks. Then, we address various practical issues for ANAPHY- PCRAS with OFDM transmission, including correlation among subchannels, imperfect carrier and timing recoveries. Among them, we show that the effect of sampling offset is significant and a search procedure in the frequency domain should be incorporated for verification. With practical OFDM transmission, the number of uncorrelated subchannels is often insufficient. Hence, we employ a time-separated approach for allocating enough subchannels and a modified ANA-PHY-PCRAS is proposed to alleviate the discontinuity of channel phase at far-separated time slots. Finally, the key equivocation is derived for the worst case scenario. We conclude that the enhanced security of ANA-PHY-PCRAS comes from the uncertainties of both the wireless channel and introduced artificial noise, compared to the traditional challenge-response authentication scheme implemented at the upper layer.
Date Issued
2016-06-29
Date Acceptance
2016-06-20
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2016, 15 (10), pp.6611-6625
ISSN
1558-2248
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
6611
End Page
6625
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume
15
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Authentication
physical layer authentication
OFDM transmission
information-theoretic security
WIRELESS NETWORKS
WIRETAP CHANNELS
SECURITY
SYSTEMS
Networking & Telecommunications
0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
0805 Distributed Computing
Publication Status
Published