IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)

Achieving Physical Layer Security / Privacy with Self-Wrapped OCDM Transmission

Yue-Kai Huang, Bernard B. Wu, Ivan Glesk, Konstantin Kravtsov, Evgenii E. Narimanov, Paul R. Prucnal, Ting Wang

Published Oct 1, 2007• 1 citation

Abstract

We present a novel transmission system using self-wrapped WHTS OCDM signals to achieve enhanced transmission security. Distributed key is encoded and time-spread to hide under noise in the network. BER of 10-4 is demonstrated experimentally.

DOI: 10.1109/milcom.2007.4455316

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