Wireless secret key generation exploiting reactance-domain scalar response of multipath fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3776-3784

  Aono, Tomoyuki ^a   Higuchi, Keisuke ^a   Ohira, Takashi ^a   Komiyama, Bokuji ^a   Sasaoka, Hideichi ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam forming; Channel characteristics; Electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR); Key distribution; Key management; Received signal strength indicator (RSSI); Secret key agreement

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAM FORMING; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE PARASITIC ARRAY RADIATOR (ESPAR); KEY DISTRIBUTION; KEY MANAGEMENT; MULTIPATH FADING CHANNELS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATOR (RSSI); SECRET KEY AGREEMENT;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 28644438588     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.858853     Document Type: Article

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