Using the physical layer for wireless authentication in time-variant channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2571-2579

  Xiao, Liang ^a,b   Greenstein, Larry J ^a,b   Mandayam, Narayan B ^a,b   Trappe, Wade ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Cross layer design; Hypothesis testing; Physical layer; Time variant channel; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AUTHENTICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYSICAL LAYER; TIME-VARIANT CHANNEL; WIRELESS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 48149115694     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070194     Document Type: Article

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