28 research outputs found
Physical layer security for multi-user MIMO visible light communication systems with generalized space shift keying
We consider the physical layer security (PLS) of multi-user (MU) multiple-input-multiple-output visible light communication (VLC) systems with an eavesdropper (Eve) and propose a novel spatial constellation design technique based on generalized space shift keying (MU-GSSK-SCD). The received signals of the legitimate users are optimized jointly, such that their bit error ratios (BERs) are minimized and Eve's BER is significantly degraded. The emission power of randomly selected light-emitting diodes is adjusted, by exploiting users' channel state information at the transmitter. Our strategy ensures that legitimate users receive confidential messages fully in an undistorted fashion, while any meaningful leakage to Eve is strongly prohibited, without any artificial noise addition. Every user can decode only its information, hence inter-user security is also guaranteed. The PLS improvements are presented in terms of both BERs and achievable secrecy rates in practical VLC scenarios. For various user configurations, it is shown that MU-GSSK-SCD increases the BER at Eve to the 0.5 level, while providing minimized BERs to the legitimate users. The achievable secrecy rate region is derived for MU-GSSK-SCD and it is shown that full secrecy can be achieved at 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) level with a user separation as small as 90 cm
Physical Layer Security for Visible Light Communication Systems:A Survey
Due to the dramatic increase in high data rate services and in order to meet
the demands of the fifth-generation (5G) networks, researchers from both
academia and industry are exploring advanced transmission techniques, new
network architectures and new frequency spectrum such as the visible light
spectra. Visible light communication (VLC) particularly is an emerging
technology that has been introduced as a promising solution for 5G and beyond.
Although VLC systems are more immune against interference and less susceptible
to security vulnerabilities since light does not penetrate through walls,
security issues arise naturally in VLC channels due to their open and
broadcasting nature, compared to fiber-optic systems. In addition, since VLC is
considered to be an enabling technology for 5G, and security is one of the 5G
fundamental requirements, security issues should be carefully addressed and
resolved in the VLC context. On the other hand, due to the success of physical
layer security (PLS) in improving the security of radio-frequency (RF) wireless
networks, extending such PLS techniques to VLC systems has been of great
interest. Only two survey papers on security in VLC have been published in the
literature. However, a comparative and unified survey on PLS for VLC from
information theoretic and signal processing point of views is still missing.
This paper covers almost all aspects of PLS for VLC, including different
channel models, input distributions, network configurations,
precoding/signaling strategies, and secrecy capacity and information rates.
Furthermore, we propose a number of timely and open research directions for
PLS-VLC systems, including the application of measurement-based indoor and
outdoor channel models, incorporating user mobility and device orientation into
the channel model, and combining VLC and RF systems to realize the potential of
such technologies
Optical wireless communications for cyber-secure ubiquitous wireless networks
Wireless connectivity is no longer limited to facilitating communications between individuals, but is also required to support diverse and heterogeneous applications, services and infrastructures. Internet of things (IoT) systems will dominate future technologies, allowing any and all devices to create, share and process data. If artificial intelligence resembles the brain of IoT, then high-speed connectivity forms the nervous system that connects the devices. For IoT to safely operate autonomously, it requires highly secure and reliable wireless links. In this article, we shed light on the potential of optical wireless communications to provide high-speed secure and reliable ubiquitous access as an enabler for fifth generation and beyond wireless networks
Secrecy Design of Indoor Visible Light Communication Network under Downlink NOMA Transmission
In this work, we investigate the transmission sum rate as well as the secrecy
sum rate of indoor visible light communication (VLC) networks for mobile
devices with the power domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
transmission, where multiple legitimate users are equipped with photodiodes
(PDs). We introduce a body blockage model of the legitimate users as well as
the eavesdropper to focus on the case where the communications from
transmitting light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to receiving devices are blocked by
the bodies of receiving users. Furthermore, in order to improve the secrecy
without any knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) of the
eavesdropper, a novel LED arrangement is introduced to reduce the overlapping
area covered by LED units supporting different users. We also propose two LED
operation strategies, called simple and smart LED linking, and evaluate their
performance against the conventional broadcasting in terms of transmission sum
rate and secrecy sum rate. Through computer simulations, the superiority of our
proposed strategies is demonstrated.Comment: 30 pages, 13 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for
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IRS-aided UAV for Future Wireless Communications: A Survey and Research Opportunities
Both unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and intelligent reflecting surfaces
(IRS) are gaining traction as transformative technologies for upcoming wireless
networks. The IRS-aided UAV communication, which introduces IRSs into UAV
communications, has emerged in an effort to improve the system performance
while also overcoming UAV communication constraints and issues. The purpose of
this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of IRSassisted UAV
communications. First, we provide five examples of how IRSs and UAVs can be
combined to achieve unrivaled potential in difficult situations. The
technological features of the most recent relevant researches on IRS-aided UAV
communications from the perspective of the main performance criteria, i.e.,
energy efficiency, security, spectral efficiency, etc. Additionally, previous
research studies on technology adoption as machine learning algorithms. Lastly,
some promising research directions and open challenges for IRS-aided UAV
communication are presented
Sparsity Signal Detection for Indoor GSSK-VLC System
In this paper, the signal detection problem in indoor
visible light communication (VLC) system aided by generalized
space shift keying (GSSK) is modeled as a sparse signal reconstruction problem, which has lower computational complexity by
exploiting the sparse reconstruction algorithms in compressed
sensing (CS). In order to satisfy the measurement matrix property to perform sparse signal reconstruction, a preprocessing
approach of measurement matrix is proposed based on singular
value decomposition (SVD), which theoretically guarantees the
feasibility of utilizing CS based sparse signal detection method in
indoor GSSK-VLC system. Then, by adopting classical orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm and compressed sampling
matching pursuit (CoSaMP) algorithm, the GSSK signals are
efficiently detected in the considered indoor GSSK-VLC system.
Furthermore, a more efficient detection algorithm combined with
OMP and maximum likelihood (ML) is also presented especially
for SSK scenario. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed
sparsity aided detection algorithms in indoor GSSK-VLC system
are verified by computer simulations. The results show that the
proposed algorithms can achieve better bit error rate (BER) and
lower computation complexity than ML based detection method.
Specifically, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain as high as 12 dB is
observed in the SSK scenario and about 5 dB in case of a GSSK
scenario upon employing our proposed detection methods
MSVM Aided Signal Detection in Generalized Spatial Modulation VLC System.
Efficient signal detection technique is developed for generalized spatial modulation (GSM) modulated indoor visible light communication (VLC) system, which is aided by a popular machine learning approach termed as support vector machine (SVM). For general VLC system, maximum likelihood (ML) detector has a high computational complexity, although it is the optimal detection algorithm. In order to alleviate this high computational complexity problem, we take the signal detection task in GSM-VLC system as a multiple classification problem, and propose an efficient signal detection scheme for the considered GSM-VLC system aided by SVM, which has lower computational complexity and nearly optimal detection accuracy. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed SVM aided signal detection technique in the considered indoor GSM-VLC system