Secret key extraction from wireless signal strength in real environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 917-930

  Premnath, Sriram Nandha ^a   Jana, Suman ^b   Croft, Jessica ^c   Gowda, Prarthana Lakshmane ^a   Clark, Mike ^a   Kasera, Sneha Kumar ^a   Patwari, Neal ^a   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V ^d  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

cryptography; key generation; multipath fading; physical layer; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; KEY GENERATION; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PRIVACY AMPLIFICATION; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SECRET KEY GENERATIONS; SENSOR NETWORK TEST-BED;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISTILLATION; ENTROPY; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH FADING; NETWORK LAYERS; RSS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84875681349     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.63     Document Type: Article

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