IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Physical-Layer Secret Key Agreement in Two-Way Wireless Relaying Systems

Takayuki Shimizu, Hisato Iwai, Hideichi Sasaoka

Published Apr 26, 2011• 71 citations

Abstract

We consider secret key agreement based on radio propagation characteristics in a two-way relaying system where two legitimate parties named Alice and Bob communicate with each other via a trusted relay. In this system, Alice and Bob share secret keys generated from measured radio propagation characteristics with the help of the relay in the presence of an eavesdropper. We present four secret key agreement schemes: an amplify-and-forward (AF) scheme, a signal-combining amplify-and-forward (SC-AF) scheme, a multiple-access amplify-and-forward (MA-AF) scheme, and an amplify-and-forward with artificial noise (AF with AN) scheme. In these schemes, the basic idea is to share the effective fading coefficients between Alice and Bob and use them as the source of the secret keys. The AF scheme is based on a conventional amplify-and-forward two-way relaying method, whereas in the SC-AF scheme and the MA-AF scheme, we apply the idea of physical-layer network coding to the secret key agreement. In the AF with AN scheme, the relay transmits artificially generated noise, as well as channel information signal, in order to conceal the latter. Simulation results show that the MA-AF scheme outperforms the other schemes in Rayleigh fading channels, whereas the AF with AN scheme is suitable for Rician fading channels.

DOI: 10.1109/tifs.2011.2147314

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