IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting (LEOS)

DPSK Vulnerability and Counter-Measure in Code-Switched O-CDMA

Daniel E. Leaird, Chen‐Bin Huang, Zhi Liang Jiang, Sang‐Gyu Park, Andrew M. Weiner

Published Oct 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

Vulnerability, based on a DPSK receiver, permitting an eavesdropper access to code-switched transmission without knowledge of the phase code in an O-CDMA system is explored. A scheme to block this vulnerability is also presented.

DOI: 10.1109/leos.2007.4382557

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