Enhancing the security of free-space optical communications with secret sharing and key agreement

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1072-1081

  Wang, Ning ^a   Song, Xuegui ^b   Cheng, Julian ^b   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Free space optical communications; Scintillation reciprocity; Secret key agreement; Secret key rate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FADING CHANNELS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TURBULENCE MODELS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL CHANNELS; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; INTENSITY-MODULATED; KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL; KEY AGREEMENT SCHEME; SECRET KEY; SECRET KEY AGREEMENT;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84919817230     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOCN.2014.6985899     Document Type: Article

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