On the physical layer security of backscatter wireless systems

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3442-3451

  Saad, Walid ^a   Zhou, Xiangyun ^b   Han, Zhu ^c   Poor, H Vincent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial noise; backscatter communication; physical layer security; Secrecy rate

Indexed keywords

NETWORK LAYERS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL NOISE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE SIGNALS; DISTRIBUTED PASSIVES; INFORMATION SIGNALS; PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY; STORAGE CAPABILITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 84903209092     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.051414.130478     Document Type: Article

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