Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications face a critical security threat from impersonation attacks, where adversaries impersonate legitimate entities to infiltrate networks to obtain private data or unauthorized access. To combat such security threats, this paper proposes a novel physical layer (PHY-layer) authentication scheme for validating UAV identity in RIS-enabled UAV wireless networks. Considering that most existing works focus on traditional communication systems such as IoT and millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, there is currently no mature PHY-layer authentication scheme to serve RIS-UAV communication systems. To this end, our scheme leverages the unique characteristics of cascaded channels related to RIS to verify the legitimacy of UAV transmitting signals to the base station (BS). To be more precise, we first use the least squares estimate method and coordinate a descent-based algorithm to extract the cascaded channel feature. Next, we explore a quantizer to quantize the fluctuations of the channel gain that are related to the extracted channel feature. The 1-bit quantizer’s output findings are exploited to generate the authentication decision criteria, which are then tested using a binary hypothesis. The statistical signal processing technique is utilized to obtain the analytical formulations for detection and false alarm probabilities. We also conduct a computational complexity analysis of the proposed scheme. Finally, the numerical results validate the effectiveness of the proposed performance metric models and show that our detection performance can reach over 90% accuracy at a low signal-to-noise ratio (e.g., −8 dB), with a 10% improvement in detection accuracy compared with existing schemes.


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    Titel :

    Exploiting Cascaded Channel Signature for PHY-Layer Authentication in RIS-Enabled UAV Communication Systems


    Beteiligte:
    Changjian Qin (Autor:in) / Mu Niu (Autor:in) / Pinchang Zhang (Autor:in) / Ji He (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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