PriWhisper: Enabling keyless secure acoustic communication for smartphones

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-45

  Zhang, Bingsheng ^a   Zhan, Qin ^a   Chen, Si ^a   Li, Muyuan ^a   Ren, Kui ^a   Wang, Cong ^b   Ma, Di ^c  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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

Author keywords

Acoustic short range communication; blind signal segmentation (BSS); independent component analysis (ICA); Internet of things; out of band (OOB) channel; security and privacy; smartphone wireless communication

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INTERNET OF THINGS; JAMMING; MOBILE SECURITY; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BLIND SIGNALS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS(ICA); OUT-OF-BAND; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84904488356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23274662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2014.2297998     Document Type: Article

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