一种基于信道特征参数的无线通信密钥生成方法

无线通信由于自身传输信道的开放性,其安全问题相对于有线通信更为突出。物理层安全技术利用无线通信信道天然的多径时变特性,可为无线传输提供物理层加密,因而近年来得到快速发展。针对传统物理层安全中密钥生成速率低、频分双工系统不适用等问题,提出了一种基于信道特征参数的无线通信密钥生成方法。基于宽带信号对多径的辨识力,利用各径间相对时延生成初始密钥,结合码本进行密钥长度扩展,从而生成最终密钥。通过数值分析证明,相对于传统物理层密钥生成方式,所提方法能显著提高密钥生成速率,同时,基于时延信道特征的互易性,该方法可适用于时分双工和频分双工无线通信系统的物理层加密。     

Simple analytical model for the random access channel in WCDMA

Random access channel (RACH) is an uplink contention-based channel specified in wideband code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) wireless systems. Proposed is an analytical model for throughput evaluation of RACH operating in frequency division duplex (FDD) mode. The impacts of traffic arrival rate, available preamble signatures and message length on the performance are analysed. Simulations validate the high accuracy of the analytical model.     

基于无线信道状态信息的密钥提取方案设计与实现

基于无线信道状态信息(Channel State Information,CSI)的密钥提取技术可以利用无线信道的短时互易性和时空唯一性实现合法通信双方之间的共享密钥分发,且具有计算复杂度低和无需额外设施辅助的优点,是上层加密方案的有效补充.本文分别为无线通信中的合法节点和窃听节点设计了基于CSI的密钥提取方案和被动窃...     

A Partial CSI Estimation Approach for Downlink FDD massive-MIMO System with Different Base Transceiver Station Topologies

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive-MIMO) is a promising technology for next generation wireless communications systems due to its capability to increase the data rate and meet the enormous ongoing data traffic explosion. However, in non-reciprocal channels, such as those encountered in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems, channel state information (CSI) estimation using downlink (DL) training sequence is to date very challenging issue, especially when the channel exhibits a shorter coherence time. In particular, the availability of sufficiently accurate CSI at the base transceiver station (BTS) allows an efficient precoding design in the DL transmission to be achieved, and thus, reliable communication systems can be obtained. In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, this paper presents a feasible DL training sequence design based on a partial CSI estimation approach for an FDD massive-MIMO system with a shorter coherence time. To this end, a threshold-based approach is proposed for a suitable DL pilot selection by exploring the statistical information of the channel covariance matrix. The mean square error of the proposed design is derived, and the achievable sum rate and bit-error-rate for maximum ratio transmitter and regularized zero forcing precoding is investigated over different BTS topologies with uniform linear array and uniform rectangular array. The results show that a feasible performance in the DL FDD massive-MIMO systems can be achieved even when a large number of antenna elements are deployed by the BTS and a shorter coherence time is considered.

     

Dynamic TDD and fixed cellular networks

There are many benefits in using time division duplex (TDD) instead of frequency division duplex (FDD) schemes in fixed wireless cellular systems. To name a few; channel reciprocity for the single carrier frequency used on both up and downlinks will allow easy access to channel state information, reduced complexity of RF design, much higher flexibility in handling dynamic traffic, simpler frequency plan, etc. However, there exists a serious limiting factor in using dynamic-TDD (D-TDD) in cellular systems. This is due to a steady interference on uplinks in a cell, caused by downlink transmissions of other cells. Simulation results show in D-TDD cellular systems, performance is unacceptable, when omni-directional antennas are used at base stations. Simulation results have also demonstrated a great potential for smart antennas in fixed D-TDD bandwidth-on-demand wireless systems     

Dynamic TDD Fixed Cellular Systems Using Smart and Sectored Antennas

There are many benefits in using time division duplex (TDD) instead of frequency division duplex (FDD) schemes in fixed wireless cellular systems. For example, channel reciprocity for a single carrier frequency used on both uplinks and downlinks will allow easy access to channel state information, reduced complexity of RF design, much higher flexibility in handling dynamic traffic, simpler frequency plan, etc. However, there exists a serious limiting factor in using dynamic TDD (D-TDD) in cellular systems. This is due to a steady interference on an uplink in any cell caused by downlink transmissions in other cells. Simulation results show in D-TDD cellular systems, performance is unacceptable, when an omnidirectional antenna is used at base stations. Simulation results also suggest great potential for smart antennas in achieving substantial performance improvement in fixed D-TDD bandwidth-on-demand wireless systems.     

An Overlaid Hybrid‐Division Duplex OFDMA System with Multihop Transmission

In this letter, we propose an overlaid hybrid division duplex (HDD) concept for cellular systems which divides a cell into inner and outer regions and utilizes the merits of both time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD). The proposed system can take advantage of both TDD and FDD without handover between two duplex schemes. Moreover, it is shown that the proposed HDD system outperforms the conventional TDD or FDD system with mobile relay stations when the synchronization issue is considered in orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems. Thus, the proposed overlaid HDD can be considered as a new framework for future cellular systems.     

Cooperative secret key generation for multi-hop relaying systems in Internet of things

The achievable key rate of secret key generation method in multi-hop relaying systems was relative low in Internet of things.A cooperative secret key generation algorithm based on network coding was proposed to improve the achievable key rate.Firstly,all the nodes send training sequences in turn to estimate the channels.After that the relays employ secure network coding technique to assist the two legitimate users to obtain the correlative observations of the same wireless channel,with nothing leakage about the channel information to the eavesdropper.Finally,the two legitimate users agreed on a common secret key directly over the public channel.Theoretical and simulation results validate the performance of the proposed secret key generation algorithm,and obtain that increasing the wireless transmission paths,selecting the transmission path with less hops and larger variance channels can further improve the achievable secret key rate.     

双向中继稀疏多径信道密钥生成与分发

本文利用时分系统无线多径信道的互易性,提取信道相位信息作为密钥,实现双向中继信道的密钥生成与分发。由于信道的稀疏多径特性,采用基于压缩感知的重构算法对信道状态信息进行估计。端节点采用正交导频设计,将双向中继信道分解为两个点对点的信道;而中继采用物理层网络编码的思想,广播导频和密钥比特的异或。这样,仅用2个时隙就实现了密钥生成与分发,还保证了密钥的安全,且无需预先进行密钥的分配。仿真结果表明,本文所提方案可以有效的实现双向中继信道的密钥生成与分发,保证了物理层的安全通信。      

Channel Magnifying Limited Feedback Technique for FDD Massive MIMO Systems

A limited feedback system, so-called, channel magnifying (CM) is proposed for a downlink (DL) frequency-division duplex (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. Although massive MIMO system has received significant research interest as a key technology for beyond 4G wireless communications systems, it has a number of issues that needs to be technically addressed. Among such issues is the difficulty of acquiring channel state information at transmitter for an FDD massive MIMO system which cannot exploit channel reciprocity as in a time-division duplex system. The proposed CM technique makes it possible to support a few user equipments in DL FDD massive MIMO system by finding a balance between spatial resources and channel quantization error (CQE). By choosing a subchannel with low CQE, CM can secure multiplexing gain at high SNR based on a fixed size codebook. Two types of subchannel indicator alignment (SIA) schemes are introduced for efficient interference nulling for the proposed CM technique. Specifically, we discuss how to maximize the sumrate of CM through genie added SIA and minimum CQE based SIA. Simulation results show that the sum rate of the proposed CM has a higher multiplexing gain than that of random vector quantization, especially when the number of transmit antennas is sufficiently large.     

Packet Scheduling Algorithm Considering a Minimum Bit Rate for Non‐realtime Traffic in an OFDMA/FDD‐Based Mobile Internet Access System

In this letter, we consider a new packet scheduling algorithm for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access/frequency division duplex (OFDMA/FDD)‐based system, e.g., mobile broadband wireless access or high‐speed portable internet systems, in which the radio resources of both time and frequency slots are dynamically shared by all users under a proper scheduling policy. Our design objective is to increase the number of non‐realtime service (e.g., WWW) users that can be supported in the system, especially when the minimum bit rate requirement is imposed on them. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can provide a significant improvement in the average outage probability performance for the NRT service, i.e., significantly increasing the number of NRT users without much compromising of the cell throughput.     

High-Rate Uncorrelated Bit Extraction for Shared Secret Key Generation from Channel Measurements

Secret keys can be generated and shared between two wireless nodes by measuring and encoding radio channel characteristics without ever revealing the secret key to an eavesdropper at a third location. This paper addresses bit extraction, i.e., the extraction of secret key bits from noisy radio channel measurements at two nodes such that the two secret keys reliably agree. Problems include 1) nonsimultaneous directional measurements, 2) correlated bit streams, and 3) low bit rate of secret key generation. This paper introduces high-rate uncorrelated bit extraction (HRUBE), a framework for interpolating, transforming for decorrelation, and encoding channel measurements using a multibit adaptive quantization scheme which allows multiple bits per component. We present an analysis of the probability of bit disagreement in generated secret keys, and we use experimental data to demonstrate the HRUBE scheme and to quantify its experimental performance. As two examples, the implemented HRUBE system can achieve 22 bits per second at a bit disagreement rate of 2.2 percent, or 10 bits per second at a bit disagreement rate of 0.54 percent.     

一种基于Savitzky-olay滤波的物理层密钥生成方法

物理层密钥生成技术使得节点能够利用无线信道的物理特性直接生成共享密钥,从而保证无线通信过程的安全性。针对当前物理层密钥生成方案普遍存在实际场景下密钥生成率低的问题,提出了一个基于Savitzky-olay滤波的物理层密钥生成机制优化方案。该方案中,合法通信节点首先探测信道并通过Savitzky-olay滤波消除部分由信道干扰造成的信道状态差异,然后,利用多级量化以及格雷码将信道状态转为比特序列,最终通过Cascade交互式信息协调协议以及基于2阶全域哈希函数的保密增强生成合法节点之间的共享密钥。实验结果表明,基于Savitzky-olay滤波的优化方案能够有效提高物理层密钥生成过程的效率,提高了此类安全机制的实际可用性。     

SHAKE: Single HAsh key establishment for resource constrained devices

Pairwise secret key establishment leveraging properties of the wireless channel, is an effective security means in scenarios where no common secret or PKI is available. Related work has shown that secret bit streams can be extracted from, e.g., signal strength ratio measurement between two peers. However, they all require a considerable amount of computing resources by the two parties.In this paper we present SHAKE, a novel algorithm to establish a key using the physical properties of the wireless channel.SHAKE is particularly suitable for scenarios where the two peers have very diverse computational resources. For example, SHAKE can be used to establish a key between a sensor and the sink in a Wireless Sensor Network. We show that a secret key can be established shifting the computational burden on one peer while the other party only require one hash evaluation, what can be afforded by any resource constrained device.We evaluate SHAKE through theoretical analysis and provide validation through real world measurements. According to our experiments, the proposed protocol generates high-entropy bit at remarkable rates and enjoys minimal computational complexity requirements at one of the two parties.     

Hidden Markov Modeling of Error Patterns and Soft Outputs for Simulation of Wideband CDMA Transmission Systems

In this paper, a Hidden Markov Modeling (HMM) technique for a fast and accurate simulation of bit errors and soft outputs in wireless communication systems is presented. HMMs with continuous probability distributions are considered. Soft outputs and bit errors are combined to error patterns. We focus on binary phase–shift keying (BPSK) modulation for direct–sequence spread spectrum (code–division multiple access, CDMA) transmission as proposed e.g. for the third generation wireless communication system UMTS (uplink for the frequency division duplex mode (FDD)). Comparisons of simulated bit error rates for HMM models and Rake receivers are shown for AWGN, flat fading, and vehicular channel conditions. In order to assess the ability of the HMM to describe the dynamical behaviour of the channel a comparison for transmission with interleaving and convolutional coding is presented. Furthermore calculated autocorrelation functions of the error patterns and error gap distributions corresponding to the Rake receiver and to the HMM, respectively, are presented. Our investigations show a strong dependence of the required HMM order on E_b/N₀ and the channel conditions. The degree of accordance of the HMM outputs and the training data is examined based on calculated statistical scoring indicators.     

Performance analysis for transmit antenna diversity with/withoutchannel information

Transmit antenna diversity (TAD) for the downlink channel has been investigated to improve the performance of wireless communications using multiple transmit antennas. We present a performance analysis for TAD with/without channel information. For performance analysis, we use the pairwise error probability and cutoff rate. For the closed-loop TAD in frequency-division duplex (FDD) mode, the downlink channel information should be transmitted to the base station from the mobile station. The feedback channel information may be imperfect because of the feedback delay, quantization error, and feedback error. The impact of imperfect channel information has been considered to analyze the performance of the TAD. We also present a performance analysis for a TAD technique that does not use the channel information, called space-time transmit diversity (STTD). Looking at the cutoff rates for the TAD techniques, the trellis-coded modulation (TCM) has been considered for better performance. Simulation results are shown to see the impact of the TCM on TAD systems     

TDD-HSDPA/SA系统链路自适应技术性能分析及改进

理论分析了链路自适应技术在TDD-HSDPA/SA系统中遇到的信道质量波动较为严重的问题,提出了两种改进方案,通过动态系统级仿真进行了仿真研究,结果表明这两种方案可显著改进系统剩余误块率,并提升系统吞吐量。第一种方案更适用于TDD/FDD系统混合组网的情况,第二种方案适用于TDD系统单独组网的情况。     

Experimental studies of direction of arrivals using a smart antenna testbed in wireless communication systems

This paper presents some preliminary results from experimental studies on space‐division‐multiple‐access (SDMA) for wireless communications. A smart antenna system utilizing direction‐of‐arrival (DOA)‐based beamforming techniques can enhance signal quality by reducing co‐channel interference from mobiles located at angles spatially distinct from the base station. Adopting both smart uplink and downlink beamforming, a communication system with an antenna array can increase the cell coverage of a base station and significantly boost capacity compared with conventional antenna systems. However, successful implementation of DOA‐based beamforming techniques depends on the DOA characteristics. This paper presented the feasibility of direction finding and DOA variation with respect to frequency. Furthermore, the angle spread was studied for selected environments. The results demonstrate the feasibility of applying proposed smart antenna system utilizing DOA‐based beamforming algorithm for increasing channel capacity and improving system performance in frequency‐division‐duplex (FDD) wireless communication systems. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Effect of On-Off Scheduling to the Required Transmit Power in Systems with Fast Power Control

Physical layer channel-aware scheduling may significantly improve coverage and throughput of IP based services in wireless cellular networks, and the feasibility of such schedulers is actively studied within 3G and 4G systems. A channel-aware scheduler requires access to instantaneous channel state information in order to direct transmission to users with favorable channel conditions. In frequency division duplex (FDD) systems, this requires a fast feedback channel between mobile and base stations, and the overhead of the feedback control channel should be kept as low as possible.In this paper, we study the effect of control channel overhead to on-off scheduling (OOS) when fast transmit power control is applied in data and control channels. On-off scheduling is a simple channel-aware scheduling algorithm, where transmission to a user is suspended if the transmit power exceeds a given threshold. On-off scheduling is applied on the data channel while control channel is always on so that the scheduler is able to obtain channel state information from active users. The gain of OOS strongly depends on the power ratio between control and data channels, and increased interference due to control signaling and decreased interference due to channel-aware scheduling should be jointly considered in system design. Gains in the required transmit power are translated into gains in coverage and capacity assuming WCDMA parameters, and the results can be applied, e.g., when designing scheduling algorithms and corresponding signaling formats for WCDMA uplink.     

AoA-Based Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO OFDM Communication Systems on High Speed Rails

Channel estimation is a well-known challenge for wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)communication systems with massive antennas on high speed rails(HSRs).This paper investigates this problem and design two practicable uplink and downlink channel estimators for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)communication systems with massive antenna arrays at base station on HSRs.Specifically,we first use pilots to estimate the initial angle of arrival(AoA)and channel gain information of each uplink path through discrete Fourier transform(DFT),and then refine the estimates via the angle rotation technique and suggested pilot design.Based on the uplink angel estimation,we design a new downlink channel estimator for frequency division duplexing(FDD)systems.Additionally,we derive the Cramér-Rao lower bounds(CRLBs)of the AoA and channel gain estimates.Finally,numerical results are provided to corroborate our proposed studies.