Message Integrity Protection Over Wireless Channel: Countering Signal Cancellation via Channel Randomization

Pan, Yanjun; Hou, Y. Thomas; Li, Ming; Gerdes, Ryan; Zeng, Kai; Towfiq, Md. Asaduzzaman; Cetiner, Bedri A.

doi:10.1109/tdsc.2017.2751600

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“…Note, that we do not address other type of adversary goals such as authentication. This security property can be achieved in conjunction with key generation using a number of additional out-of-band or in-band methods [6,18,21].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For RAKG, Alice was equipped with an RA of 3×3 square shaped metallic pixels that are connected by 12 p-i-n diode switches with fast reconfigurability. The radiation patterns of some typical modes can be found in [21], and we switched antenna modes among 4096 available antenna modes. However, we only have the data of the antenna patterns for 253 modes, which prevent us from obtaining 𝑝 0 and 𝑝 1 among all antenna modes.…”

Section: Performance Evaluation 51 Experiments Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Resistant Secret Key Generation via Channel Randomization

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Net

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Physical-layer based key generation schemes exploit the channel reciprocity for secret key extraction, which can achieve informationtheoretic secrecy against eavesdroppers. Such methods, although practical, have been shown to be vulnerable against man-in-themiddle (MitM) attacks, where an active adversary, Mallory, can influence and infer part of the secret key generated between Alice and Bob by injecting her own packet upon observing highly correlated channel/RSS measurements from Alice and Bob. As all the channels remain stable within the channel coherence time, Mallory's injected packets cause Alice and Bob to measure similar RSS, which allows Mallory to successfully predict the derived key bits. To defend against such a MitM attack, we propose to utilize a reconfigurable antenna at one of the legitimate transceivers to proactively randomize the channel state across different channel probing rounds. The randomization of the antenna mode at every probing round breaks the temporal correlation of the channels from the adversary to the legitimate devices, while preserving the reciprocity of the channel between the latter. This prevents key injection from the adversary without affecting Alice and Bob's ability to measure common randomness. We theoretically analyze the security of the protocol and conduct extensive simulations and real-world experiments to evaluate its performance. Our results show that our approach eliminates the advantage of an active MitM attack by driving down the probability of successfully guessing bits of the secret key to a random guess. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Security protocols; Symmetric cryptography and hash functions.

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Section: Performance Evaluation 51 Experiments Setupmentioning

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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Resistant Secret Key Generation via Channel Randomization

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Net

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“…PHY-layer message authentication can be traced back to Simmons' work in [16], where an authentication model over noiseless channels was proposed. Recently, authentication over noise channel models drawn increasing attentions [21]- [25]. The authentication over noise source model with a (noiseless) public discussion channel was studied by Korzhik et al [21].…”

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“…After that, Jiang considered the keyless authentication problem in a noise channel model in [23], [24]. More recently, the security of physical layer message integrity protection scheme was studied by Pan et al in [25], in which, a signal cancellation attack framework is established to model the attacker's behavior, and a physical layer message integrity protection approach with reconfigurable antenna is proposed based on the framework. The other related works also includes [33]- [35].…”

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Physical Layer based Message Authentication with Secure Channel Codes

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IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Comput.

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In this paper, we investigate physical (PHY) layer message authentication to combat adversaries with infinite computational capacity. Specifically, a PHY-layer authentication framework over a wiretap channel (W 1 ,W 2) is proposed to achieve information-theoretic security with the same key. We develop a theorem to reveal the requirements/conditions for the authentication framework to be information-theoretic secure for authenticating a polynomial number of messages in terms of n. Based on this theorem, we design an authentication protocol that can guarantee the security requirements, and prove its authentication rate can approach infinity when n goes to infinity. Furthermore, we design and implement a feasible and efficient message authentication protocol over binary symmetric wiretap channel (BSWC) by using Linear Feedback Shifting Register based (LFSR-based) hash functions and strong secure polar code. Through extensive simulations, it is demonstrated that the proposed protocol can achieve high authentication rate, with low time complexity and authentication error rate.

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“…Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) capable of dynamically changing their properties, e.g., radiation pattern, operational frequency and polarization have received a great deal of attention [1]- [12]. In particular, the RAs with radiation pattern reconfigurability help improve the system performance [13], communication security and energy efficiency by directing signals towards intended directions while reducing interference in unintended directions [14]. The gains with RA systems are typically achieved at the cost of increased structural (or hardware) and algorithmic (or software) complexities as compared to a legacy singlefunction antenna system.…”

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A Reconfigurable Antenna With Beam Steering and Beamwidth Variability for Wireless Communications

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Bahçeci

Blanch

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IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat.

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Abstract-A reconfigurable antenna (RA) capable of steering its beam into the hemisphere corresponding too }, and of changing 3-dB beamwidth, whereo } for broadside direction is presented. The RA operating in 5 GHz band consists of a driven patch antenna with a parasitic layer placed above it. The upper surface of the parasitic layer has two pixelated metallic strips, where each strip has four pixels. The pixels connected via PIN diode switches enable to change the current distribution on the antenna providing the desired modes of operation. A prototype RA was characterized indicating an average gain of 8 dB. Measured and simulated impedance and radiation patterns agreed well. The proposed RA offers an efficient solution by using less number of switches compared to other RAs. The system level simulations for a 5G orthogonal frequency division multiple access system show that the RA improves capacity/coverage trade-off significantly, where the RA modes and users are jointly determined to create proper beamwidth and directivity at the access point antennas. For a hotspot scenario, the presented RA provided 29% coverage and 16% capacity gain concurrently.

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Message Integrity Protection Over Wireless Channel: Countering Signal Cancellation via Channel Randomization

Cited by 14 publications

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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Resistant Secret Key Generation via Channel Randomization

Man-in-the-Middle Attack Resistant Secret Key Generation via Channel Randomization

Physical Layer based Message Authentication with Secure Channel Codes

A Reconfigurable Antenna With Beam Steering and Beamwidth Variability for Wireless Communications

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