Limitations of generating a secret key using wireless fading under active adversary

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1440-1451

  Zafer, Murtaza ^a   Agrawal, Dakshi ^a   Srivatsa, Mudhakar ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active adversary; channel fading; jamming; secret key; wireless security

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ADVERSARY; ADVERSARY MODELS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COMMUNICATION COST; EFFICIENT PROCESS; KEY EXCHANGE; RESEARCH STUDIES; SECRET KEY; SHARED SECRETS; SIGNAL POWER; WIRELESS CHANNEL; WIRELESS SECURITY; WORKING SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS; INFORMATION THEORY; JAMMING;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867755583     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2012.2183146     Document Type: Article

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