Date of Award
Fall 2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Committee Director
Dimitrie C. Popescu
Committee Member
Dean J. Krusienski
Committee Member
W. Steven Gray
Abstract
Physical layer approaches for generating secret encryption keys for wireless systems using channel information have attracted increased interest from researchers in recent years. This paper presents a new approach for calculating log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for secret key generation that is based on one-bit quantization of channel measurements and the difference between channel estimates at legitimate reciprocal nodes. The studied secret key agreement approach, which implements advantage distillation along with information reconciliation using Slepian-Wolf low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, is discussed and illustrated with numerical results obtained from simulations. These results show the probability of bit disagreement for keys generated using the proposed LLR calculations compared with alternative LLR calculation methods for key generation based on channel state information. The proposed LLR calculations are shown to be an improvement to the studied approach of physical layer secret key agreement.
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DOI
10.25777/waqt-q825
ISBN
9781369555684
Recommended Citation
Snoap, John A..
"Physical Layer Secret Key Agreement Using One-Bit Quantization and Low-Density Parity-Check Codes"
(2016). Master of Science (MS), Thesis, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/waqt-q825
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ece_etds/13
ORCID
0000-0001-8541-9764