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Physical gate based preamble obfuscation for securing wireless communication
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Physical gate based preamble obfuscation for securing wireless communication

James Chacko, Kyle Juretus, Marko Jacovic, Cem Sahin, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Ioannis Savidis and Kapil Dandekar
2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
Jan 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2017.7876142

Abstract

Wireless communication field programmable gate arrays software radio Receivers Logic gates Physical layer Encryption Standards communication system security
As wireless devices hold prominent roles as means of communication, developing strong security methods against sophisticated cyber-attacks has become paramount. A novel physical layer based technique for securing wireless communication between the transmitter and receiver is described in this paper. The technique involves obfuscating the preamble data of the baseband signal through unique keys that are independently generated at both the transmitter and the receiver based on channel characteristics known only to the pair. The obfuscation technique is developed on the Drexel Software Defined Communication testbed on a Xilinx Virtex 6 ML605 board.

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