Symbiotic radio (SR) has recently emerged as a promising technology to boost spectrum efficiency of wireless communications by allowing reflective communications underlying the active RF communications. In this paper, we leverage SR to boost physical layer security by using an array of passive reflecting elements constituting the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is reconfigurable to induce diverse RF radiation patterns. In particular, by switching the IRS’s phase shifting matrices, we can proactively create dynamic channel conditions, which can be exploited by the transceivers to extract common channel features and thus used to generate secret keys for encrypted data transmissions. As such, we firstly present the design principles for IRS-assisted key generation and verify a performance improvement in terms of the secret key generation rate (KGR). Our analysis reveals that the IRS’s random phase shifting may result in a non-uniform channel distribution that limits the KGR. Therefore, to maximize the KGR, we propose both a heuristic scheme and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to control the switching of the IRS’s phase shifting matrices. Simulation results show that the DRL approach for IRS-assisted key generation can significantly improve the KGR.


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    Title :

    Boosting Secret Key Generation for IRS-Assisted Symbiotic Radio Communications


    Contributors:
    Liu, Yang (author) / Wang, Meng (author) / Xu, Jing (author) / Gong, Shimin (author) / Hoang, Dinh Thai (author) / Niyato, Dusit (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-04-01


    Size :

    3862874 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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