Secure MIMO Visible Light Communication System Based on User's Location and Encryption

Mousa, Farag; Maadeed, Noor Al; Busawon, Krishna; Bouridane, Ahmed; Binns, Richard

doi:10.1109/jlt.2017.2761301

Cited by 22 publications

(19 citation statements)

References 28 publications

(39 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In this case, the transmission may be based on IEEE 802. 15 relayed VLC-based network is the Li-Fi, in which the original message is transmitted to the VLC AP via RF, fiber optics or any other data communication technology.…”

Section: Relayed Vs Non-relayed Vlc-based Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

VLC-Based Networking: Feasibility and Challenges

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Visible-light communication (VLC) has emerged as a prominent technology to address the radio spectrum shortage. It is characterized by the unlicensed and unexploited high bandwidth, and provides the system with cost-effective advantages because of the dual-use of light bulbs for illumination and communication and the low complexity design. It is considered to be utilized in various telecommunication systems, including 5G, and represents the key technology for light-fidelity. To this end, VLC has to be integrated into the existing telecommunication networks. Therefore, its analysis as a network technology is momentous. In this article, we consider the feasibility of using VLC as a network technology and discuss the challenges related to the implementation of a VLC-based network, as well as the integration of VLC into existing conventional networks and its inclusion in standards.Visible light communication (VLC) is a data transmission technology which exploits the light beam as a communication medium. It is a variant of optical wireless communications, which uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as antennas and is characterized by short transmission range. In the indoor environment, VLC provides both data transmission and illumination [1]. Its main applications include light-fidelity (Li-Fi), indoor positioning, as well as vehicle-to-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle communications. It has recently been demonstrated that using laser diodes (LDs), VLC can also be utilized in access networks [2]. The efficient utilization of VLC for such applications requires its analysis as a network technology, which is the focus of this article.The interest in the VLC technology can be evidenced by the growing number of research works in the literature [1,3,4,5,6] (and references therein), the prototypes and field trials proposed by researchers and industry, and by the standardization activities. Following these efforts, the effective deployment is seen as the next key step. Several challenges are to be overcome when practically deploying communication systems using VLC in both simplex and duplex configurations. Among these challenges, we underline the fact that the return path in a VLC-based communication system may use a different technology, such as radio frequency (RF), power line communication, fiber optics, and free space optical. If using VLC, the return path can be based on a different wavelength. Another important challenge is the illumination coverage. The VLC transmission range is limited, as it is imposed by the lighting coverage of the source, which is short by nature [7]. LEDs and LDs are the two main types of light sources considered in VLC. Compared to LEDs, whose lighting range is only a couple of hundred meters, LDs provide an illumination coverage in the order of a couple of kilometers. On the other hand, since only positive and real signals can be successfully transmitted in VLC systems, the modulation schemes that can be employed should produce a non-complex and asymmetric signal. * Alain R. Ndjiongue is with ...

show abstract

Section: Relayed Vs Non-relayed Vlc-based Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2f for a single user. Typically, such networks use the color-shift-keying scheme [14] or may exploit the multiple-input multiple-output technique [15] to transmit data. In both cases, considering a single user, the data rate is improved when compared with single channel systems.…”

Section: Multi-channel Vlc-based Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

VLC-Based Networking: Feasibility and Challenges

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Explicitly, a pair of secure communication protocols, termed as a non-jamming protocol and a cooperative jamming protocol, were proposed and tractable solutions were obtained based on the alternating optimization approach. A novel secure MIMO-VLC system has been designed using the modified Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) technique of [23] to encrypt the transmitted data in the MAC layer based on the location of the user supported by MIMO-VLC systems [23].…”

Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing the secrecy performance of the spatial modulation aided VLC systems with optical jamming

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2019

Signal Processing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In order to enhance the secrecy performance of the spatial modulation (SM) aided visible light communication (VLC) system, an optical jamming aided secrecy enhancement scheme is proposed in this paper, in which transmitter (Alice) sends the optical jamming signals and the confidential signal simultaneously with amplitude and power constraints, wherein the truncated Gaussian distribution is adopted by the optical jamming signals for the considered constraints. Additionally, with finite discrete support set of the channel inputs' distribution, the corresponding secrecy performance is systematically analyzed for the optical jamming aided SM-VLC system, which includes the average mutual information (AMI), the lower bound on AMI and its closedform expression approximation and the achievable secrecy rate. Furthermore, the power allocation problem for the proposed SM-VLC systems with optical jamming is considered. Finally, extensive simulation results are presented to validate our analytical results and the secrecy versus bit error ratio (BER) trade-off is characterized.

show abstract

“…Additionally, Zou et.al. in [26] have analyzed the secrecy rate of MISO optical wireless scattering communication systems, under certain constraints. Explicitly, a pair of secure communication protocols, termed as a nonjamming protocol and a cooperative jamming protocol, were proposed and tractable solutions were obtained based on the alternating optimization approach.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Explicitly, a pair of secure communication protocols, termed as a nonjamming protocol and a cooperative jamming protocol, were proposed and tractable solutions were obtained based on the alternating optimization approach. A novel secure MIMO-VLC system has been designed using the modified Rivest-ShamirAdleman (RSA) technique of [26] to encrypt the transmitted data in the MAC layer based on the location of the user supported by MIMO-VLC systems [26]. In [27], the closedform analytical expressions of both secrecy outage probability and of the average secrecy capacity of a downlink VLC system have been derived by ignoring any amplitude constraints and by assuming Gaussian input distribution, while considering random positions for both the one and only legitimate user as well as for the multiple illegitimate users.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optical Jamming Enhances the Secrecy Performance of the Generalized Space-Shift-Keying-Aided Visible-Light Downlink

Wang

Liu

Wang

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Commun.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract-In order to enhance the secrecy performance of the Generalized Space Shift Keying (GSSK) visible light communication (VLC) system, in this paper, an optical jamming aided secrecy enhancement scheme is proposed, in which the source transmitter (S) simultaneously sends both the confidential desired signal and optical jamming signals under amplitude and power constraints. The optical jamming signals obey the truncated Gaussian distribution for satisfying the constraints. Given the discrete set of channel inputs, the optical jamming aided GSSK-VLC system's secrecy performance is analyzed. Explicitly, the average mutual information (AMI), the lower bound of AMI and its closed-form approximation as well as the achievable secrecy rate are formulated analytically. Furthermore, the optimal power sharing strategy of the proposed GSSK-VLC systems relying on optical jamming is derived. Closed-form expressions are provided for the optimal power sharing in both the low-and high-SNR regions. Finally, extensive simulation results are presented to validate our analytical results.Index Terms-Visible light communication (VLC), generalized space shift keying (GSSK), physical layer security (PLS), optical jamming, achievable secrecy rate, power sharing.

show abstract

Secure MIMO Visible Light Communication System Based on User's Location and Encryption

Cited by 22 publications

References 28 publications

VLC-Based Networking: Feasibility and Challenges

VLC-Based Networking: Feasibility and Challenges

Enhancing the secrecy performance of the spatial modulation aided VLC systems with optical jamming

Optical Jamming Enhances the Secrecy Performance of the Generalized Space-Shift-Keying-Aided Visible-Light Downlink

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About