Cooperative secret key generation from phase estimation in narrowband fading channels

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1666-1674

  Wang, Qian ^a,b   Xu, Kaihe ^b   Ren, Kui ^b,c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperative networking; Key generation; maximum likelihood estimation; multipath channel; single tone estimation; wireless network

Indexed keywords

COMMON RANDOMNESS; COOPERATIVE NETWORKING; CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION THEORY; HIGH RATE; KEY BITS; KEY GENERATION; KEY GENERATION PROTOCOLS; KEY GENERATION RATE; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NARROW BANDS; NODE MOBILITY; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHASE ESTIMATION; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RANDOM SOURCES; RELAY NODE; SECRET KEY; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATE OF THE ART; UPPER BOUND;

ACCESS CONTROL; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ESTIMATION; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; INFORMATION THEORY; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NETWORK LAYERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84866898821     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.121010     Document Type: Article

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