Optics Express

Block compressive sensing chaotic embedded encryption for MCF-OFDM transmission system

Qing Zhong, Zhiruo Guo, Bo Liu, Jianxin Ren, Yaya Mao, Xiangyu Wu, Yongfeng Wu, Lilong Zhao, Tingting Sun, Rahat Ullah

Published May 20, 2022• 6 citations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a block compressive sensing (BCS) based chaotic embedded encryption scheme for multi-core fiber orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MCF-OFDM) system. BCS technology is used to recover the entire desired information from the small amounts of data. Meanwhile, a four-dimensional discrete chaotic encryption model generates four masking factors, which are respectively used for coefficient random permutation (CRP), measurement matrix, diffusion and singular value decomposition (SVD) embedding to achieve ultra-high security encryption of four different dimensions. In terms of compressive sensing, CRP can make the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficient distribute randomly to improve the sampling efficiency of BCS. Compared with the data without compressive sensing, the data volume is reduced by 75%. In chaotic encryption, SVD technology embeds secret images of noise-like after initial encryption into carrier images to generate encrypted images with visual security. The key space reaches 10120 and it realizes the dual protection of source image data and external representation. The proposed scheme using a 2km 7-core optical fiber achieves a 78.75 Gb/s transmission of encrypted OFDM signals. The received optical power is greater than -14 dBm, and the bit error rate (BER) of core1-core7 is lower than 10−3. When the compression ratio sets to 0.25 and the attack range of encrypted data is up to 30%, the image can still recover the outline and general information. The experimental results show that this scheme can improve the security performance and reduce the complexity of information transmission system. Furthermore, the scheme combines The BCS chaotic embedded encryption technology with MCF-OFDM system, which has a good application prospect in the future optical networks.

DOI: 10.1364/oe.460299

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