Blind Transmitter Authentication for spectrum security and enforcement

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 787-798

  Kumar, Vireshwar ^a   Park, Jung Min ^a   Bian, Kaigui ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive radios; PHY layer authentication; Spectrum sharing and management; Transmitter identification

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; COGNITIVE RADIO; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; PHYSICAL LAYER; TRANSMITTERS;

AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; INDOOR EXPERIMENT; SPECTRUM SHARING; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS; TRANSMITTER IDENTIFICATION; WIRELESS DEVICES;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84910593983     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2660267.2660318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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