556 research outputs found
Principles of Physical Layer Security in Multiuser Wireless Networks: A Survey
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer
security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of
physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over
a wireless medium in the presence of unauthorized eavesdroppers without relying
on higher-layer encryption. This can be achieved primarily in two ways: without
the need for a secret key by intelligently designing transmit coding
strategies, or by exploiting the wireless communication medium to develop
secret keys over public channels. The survey begins with an overview of the
foundations dating back to the pioneering work of Shannon and Wyner on
information-theoretic security. We then describe the evolution of secure
transmission strategies from point-to-point channels to multiple-antenna
systems, followed by generalizations to multiuser broadcast, multiple-access,
interference, and relay networks. Secret-key generation and establishment
protocols based on physical layer mechanisms are subsequently covered.
Approaches for secrecy based on channel coding design are then examined, along
with a description of inter-disciplinary approaches based on game theory and
stochastic geometry. The associated problem of physical-layer message
authentication is also introduced briefly. The survey concludes with
observations on potential research directions in this area.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, 303 refs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1303.1609 by other authors. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,
201
Cooperative Secure Transmission by Exploiting Social Ties in Random Networks
Social awareness and social ties are becoming increasingly popular with
emerging mobile and handheld devices. Social trust degree describing the
strength of the social ties has drawn lots of research interests in many fields
in wireless communications, such as resource sharing, cooperative communication
and so on. In this paper, we propose a hybrid cooperative beamforming and
jamming scheme to secure communication based on the social trust degree under a
stochastic geometry framework. The friendly nodes are categorized into relays
and jammers according to their locations and social trust degrees with the
source node. We aim to analyze the involved connection outage probability (COP)
and secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the performance in the networks. To
achieve this target, we propose a double Gamma ratio (DGR) approach through
Gamma approximation. Based on this, the COP and SOP are tractably obtained in
closed-form. We further consider the SOP in the presence of Poisson Point
Process (PPP) distributed eavesdroppers and derive an upper bound. The
simulation results verify our theoretical findings, and validate that the
social trust degree has dramatic influences on the security performance in the
networks.Comment: 30 pages, 11 figures, to be published in IEEE Transactions on
Communication
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Anti-Jamming Communications Based on Reinforcement Learning
Malicious jamming launched by smart jammer, which attacks legitimate
transmissions has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in
wireless communications. Thus, this paper exploits intelligent reflecting
surface (IRS) to enhance anti-jamming communication performance and mitigate
jamming interference by adjusting the surface reflecting elements at the IRS.
Aiming to enhance the communication performance against smart jammer, an
optimization problem for jointly optimizing power allocation at the base
station (BS) and reflecting beamforming at the IRS is formulated. As the
jamming model and jamming behavior are dynamic and unknown, a win or learn fast
policy hill-climbing (WoLF-PHC) learning approach is proposed to jointly
optimize the anti-jamming power allocation and reflecting beamforming strategy
without the knowledge of the jamming model. Simulation results demonstrate that
the proposed anti-jamming based-learning approach can efficiently improve both
the IRS-assisted system rate and transmission protection level compared with
existing solutions.Comment: This paper appears in the Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications
Conference (GLOBECOM) 2020. A full version appears in IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications. arXiv:2004.1253
A Survey on Wireless Security: Technical Challenges, Recent Advances and Future Trends
This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the
inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense
mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the
security requirements of wireless networks, including their authenticity,
confidentiality, integrity and availability issues. Next, a comprehensive
overview of security attacks encountered in wireless networks is presented in
view of the network protocol architecture, where the potential security threats
are discussed at each protocol layer. We also provide a survey of the existing
security protocols and algorithms that are adopted in the existing wireless
network standards, such as the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the long-term
evolution (LTE) systems. Then, we discuss the state-of-the-art in
physical-layer security, which is an emerging technique of securing the open
communications environment against eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer.
We also introduce the family of various jamming attacks and their
counter-measures, including the constant jammer, intermittent jammer, reactive
jammer, adaptive jammer and intelligent jammer. Additionally, we discuss the
integration of physical-layer security into existing authentication and
cryptography mechanisms for further securing wireless networks. Finally, some
technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are
summarized and the future trends in wireless security are discussed.Comment: 36 pages. Accepted to Appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 201
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