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Soderi S, Mucchi L, Hämäläinen M, Piva A, Iinatti J. Physical layer security based on spread‐spectrum watermarking and jamming receiver. Trans Emerging Tel Tech. 2017;28: e3142. https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3142

Physical layer security based on spread-spectrum watermarking and jamming receiver

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Author: Soderi, Simone1,2; Mucchi, Lorenzo3; Hämäläinen, Matti1;
Organizations: 1Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
2Alstom Ferroviaria, Florence, Italy
3Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 6.2 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2018070527094
Language: English
Published: John Wiley & Sons, 2017
Publish Date: 2017-12-19
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Abstract

Wireless communications’ infrastructures are frequently selected as a cable replacement in many applications giving an immediate advantage on the wireless investment. However, the worldwide proliferation of wireless local area network (WLAN) imposed large investments on the network security. In the early days of Internet, its layered protocol stack did not consider security as a primary concern. Because then, a significant amount of literature has been published. This paper proposes a watermark‐based blind physical layer security utilizing a jamming receiver in conjunction with the spread spectrum watermarking technique. The outage probability of the secrecy capacity is analytically derived, regardless of the eavesdropper position. The theoretical analysis let us draw a secure region around the legitimate receiver. Results indicate how the watermark‐based blind physical layer security aims to be a valuable technique for deploying physical layer security. Authors utilized 2 performance metrics, the outage probability of secrecy capacity for assessing the secure communication effectiveness and the error probability for evaluating the watermark extraction process. Finally, the proposed protocol improves the secrecy capacity performance if compared with other protocols, and moreover, it has a lower energy consumption.

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Series: Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
ISSN: 2161-5748
ISSN-E: 2161-3915
ISSN-L: 2161-5748
Volume: 28
Issue: 7
Article number: e3142
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3142
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1002/ett.3142
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
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