Can We Improve Channel Reciprocity via Loop-back Compensation for RIS-assisted Physical Layer Key Generation

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Main Authors: Xu, Ningya, Nan, Guoshun, Tao, Xiaofeng, Li, Na, Mao, Pengxuan, Yang, Tianyuan
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author Xu, Ningya
Nan, Guoshun
Tao, Xiaofeng
Li, Na
Mao, Pengxuan
Yang, Tianyuan
author_facet Xu, Ningya
Nan, Guoshun
Tao, Xiaofeng
Li, Na
Mao, Pengxuan
Yang, Tianyuan
contents Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) facilitates the extraction of unpredictable channel features for physical layer key generation (PKG), securing communications among legitimate users with symmetric keys. Previous works have demonstrated that channel reciprocity plays a crucial role in generating symmetric keys in PKG systems, whereas, in reality, reciprocity is greatly affected by hardware interference and RIS-based jamming attacks. This motivates us to propose LoCKey, a novel approach that aims to improve channel reciprocity by mitigating interferences and attacks with a loop-back compensation scheme, thus maximizing the secrecy performance of the PKG system. Specifically, our proposed LoCKey is capable of effectively compensating for the CSI non-reciprocity by the combination of transmit-back signal value and error minimization module. Firstly, we introduce the entire flowchart of our method and provide an in-depth discussion of each step. Following that, we delve into a theoretical analysis of the performance optimizations when our LoCKey is applied for CSI reciprocity enhancement. Finally, we conduct experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed LoCKey in improving channel reciprocity under various interferences for RIS-assisted wireless communications. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in both the rate of key generation assisted by the RIS and the consistency of the generated keys, showing great potential for the practical deployment of our LoCKey in future wireless systems.
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spellingShingle Can We Improve Channel Reciprocity via Loop-back Compensation for RIS-assisted Physical Layer Key Generation
Xu, Ningya
Nan, Guoshun
Tao, Xiaofeng
Li, Na
Mao, Pengxuan
Yang, Tianyuan
Signal Processing
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) facilitates the extraction of unpredictable channel features for physical layer key generation (PKG), securing communications among legitimate users with symmetric keys. Previous works have demonstrated that channel reciprocity plays a crucial role in generating symmetric keys in PKG systems, whereas, in reality, reciprocity is greatly affected by hardware interference and RIS-based jamming attacks. This motivates us to propose LoCKey, a novel approach that aims to improve channel reciprocity by mitigating interferences and attacks with a loop-back compensation scheme, thus maximizing the secrecy performance of the PKG system. Specifically, our proposed LoCKey is capable of effectively compensating for the CSI non-reciprocity by the combination of transmit-back signal value and error minimization module. Firstly, we introduce the entire flowchart of our method and provide an in-depth discussion of each step. Following that, we delve into a theoretical analysis of the performance optimizations when our LoCKey is applied for CSI reciprocity enhancement. Finally, we conduct experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed LoCKey in improving channel reciprocity under various interferences for RIS-assisted wireless communications. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in both the rate of key generation assisted by the RIS and the consistency of the generated keys, showing great potential for the practical deployment of our LoCKey in future wireless systems.
title Can We Improve Channel Reciprocity via Loop-back Compensation for RIS-assisted Physical Layer Key Generation
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17575