Exploiting physical layer (PHY) characteristics has great potential to complement and secure upper-layer authentication protocols. Unlike existing PHY authentication mechanisms requiring special hardware designs, in this paper, we propose a practical PHY- aided authentication approach based on weighted fractional Fourier transform (WFRFT). Instead of exploiting the channel or hardware characteristics that are out of control, the proposed scheme can provide two-fold protection on upper-layer protocols by leveraging the intrinsic PHY features of the transmitted signal. Firstly, WFRFT can hide and forge the modulation paradigm to mislead attackers in signal demodulation. Secondly, WFRFT signal can be adjusted among different patterns automatically and dynamically to provide more security and freedom in PHY authentication, similar to frequency-hopping systems. Numerical simulations and analyses demonstrate that the proposed scheme can achieve more secure authentication with tolerate computational overhead.


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    Title :

    Towards PHY-Aided Authentication via Weighted Fractional Fourier Transform


    Contributors:
    Fang, Xiaojie (author) / Sha, Xuejun (author) / Zhang, Ning (author) / Wu, Xuanli (author) / Shen, Xuemin (author)


    Publication date :

    2016-09-01


    Size :

    347986 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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