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Shared Secret Key Generation via Carrier Frequency Offsets

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  • Waqas Aman
  • Aneeqa Ijaz
  • M. Mahboob Ur Rahman
  • Dushanta Nalin K. Jayakody
  • Haris Pervaiz
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Publication date28/04/2019
Host publication2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring)
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)9781728112176
ISBN (print)9781728112183
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event89th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring
- JW Marriott, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 28/04/20191/05/2019
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019spring/

Conference

Conference89th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring
Abbreviated titleVTC2019-Spring
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period28/04/191/05/19
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Conference

Conference89th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring
Abbreviated titleVTC2019-Spring
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period28/04/191/05/19
Internet address

Abstract

This work presents a novel method to generate secret keys shared between a legitimate node pair (Alice and Bob) to safeguard the communication between them from an unauthorized node (Eve). To this end, we exploit the reciprocal carrier frequency offset (CFO) between the legitimate node pair to extract common randomness out of it to generate shared secret keys. The proposed key generation algorithm involves standard steps: the legitimate nodes exchange binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) signals to perform blind CFO estimation on the received signals, and do equi-probable quantization of the noisy CFO estimates followed by information reconciliation-to distil a shared secret key. Furthermore, guided by the Allan deviation curve, we distinguish between the two frequency-stability regimes-when the randomly time-varying CFO process i) has memory, ii) is memoryless; thereafter, we compute the key generation rate for both regimes. Simulation results show that the key disagreement rate decreases exponentially with increase in the signal to noise ratio of the link between Alice and Bob. Additionally, the decipher probability of Eve decreases as soon as either of the two links observed by the Eve becomes more degraded compared to the link between Alice and Bob.