Hybrid Channel- and Coding-Based Challenge-Response Physical-Layer Authentication
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| author | Crosara, Laura Mirmohseni, Mahtab Tomasin, Stefano |
| author_facet | Crosara, Laura Mirmohseni, Mahtab Tomasin, Stefano |
| contents | This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface). We aim to exploit both instantaneous channel state information (CSI) and a secret shared key for authentication. This is achieved by both transmitting an identifying key by wiretap coding (to conceal the key from the attacker) and checking that the instantaneous CSI corresponds to the channel configuration randomly selected by the receiver. We investigate the trade-off between the pilot signals used for CSI estimation and the coding rate (or key length) to improve the overall security of the authentication procedure. |
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| spellingShingle | Hybrid Channel- and Coding-Based Challenge-Response Physical-Layer Authentication Crosara, Laura Mirmohseni, Mahtab Tomasin, Stefano Information Theory Signal Processing This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface). We aim to exploit both instantaneous channel state information (CSI) and a secret shared key for authentication. This is achieved by both transmitting an identifying key by wiretap coding (to conceal the key from the attacker) and checking that the instantaneous CSI corresponds to the channel configuration randomly selected by the receiver. We investigate the trade-off between the pilot signals used for CSI estimation and the coding rate (or key length) to improve the overall security of the authentication procedure. |
| title | Hybrid Channel- and Coding-Based Challenge-Response Physical-Layer Authentication |
| topic | Information Theory Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17476 |