Secret Key Generation on Aerial Rician Fading Channels Against a Curious Receiver

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Main Authors: Piana, Mattia, Tomasin, Stefano
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Published: 2025
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author Piana, Mattia
Tomasin, Stefano
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Tomasin, Stefano
contents Secret key generation at the physical layer is expected to be a fundamental enabler for next-generation networks. We consider a network where the user equipment is a drone and propose a novel secret key generation solution when the eavesdropper is another node belonging to the network (curious device). We exploit drone mobility over realistic Rician fading channels. In our protocol, after a prior training phase, drone Alice chooses a trajectory of positions in space and transmits a message to Bob, on the ground, from each position. From the received messages, Bob estimates the channel gain from which a secret key is extracted. The choice of the positions is made to maximize a lower bound on the secret key capacity. Numerical simulations are used to prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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spellingShingle Secret Key Generation on Aerial Rician Fading Channels Against a Curious Receiver
Piana, Mattia
Tomasin, Stefano
Signal Processing
Secret key generation at the physical layer is expected to be a fundamental enabler for next-generation networks. We consider a network where the user equipment is a drone and propose a novel secret key generation solution when the eavesdropper is another node belonging to the network (curious device). We exploit drone mobility over realistic Rician fading channels. In our protocol, after a prior training phase, drone Alice chooses a trajectory of positions in space and transmits a message to Bob, on the ground, from each position. From the received messages, Bob estimates the channel gain from which a secret key is extracted. The choice of the positions is made to maximize a lower bound on the secret key capacity. Numerical simulations are used to prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
title Secret Key Generation on Aerial Rician Fading Channels Against a Curious Receiver
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04756