IEEE Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC)

Cross-layer security based on optical CDMA and algorithmic cryptography

Wenjun Li, Jianhua Ji, Guirong Zhang, Wenlin Zhang

Published Sep 1, 2016• 3 citations

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an optical network with cross-layer security, which can enhance security performance. In the transmitter, the user's data is encrypted at first. After that, based on optical encoding, physical layer encryption is implemented. In the receiver, after the corresponding optical decoding process, decryption algorithm is used to restore user's data. In this paper, the security performance has been evaluated quantitatively.

DOI: 10.1109/ogc.2016.7590484

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