Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Log inSign up
Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Blog
Job Board
Q3AS

© 2026 Aqora Quantum S.A.S.

TermsPrivacyLegal Notice

Security and Privacy

Physical layer security using boundary technique for emerging wireless communication systems

Ismaeel Abiodun Sikiru, Lukman Abiodun Olawoyin, Nasir Faruk, Abdulkarim Ayopo Oloyede, Abubakar Abdulkarim, Imam‐Fulani Yusuf Olayinka, Olugbenga Akinkunmi Sowande, Salisu Garba, Agbotiname Lucky Imoize

Published Dec 11, 2022• 7 citations
Publisher

Abstract

Abstract The broadcast nature of radio propagation in wireless communication has been suspected as the loopholes of passive or active attacks by unauthorized users (eavesdroppers). The physical layer security techniques operate at the lowest stack of OSI layer against conventional cryptographic approaches, operating at the upper layer. However, techniques such as channel coding, power (directional antenna and artificial noise), and spread spectrum have been (and continuously) deployed to safeguard against sophisticated attacks. Most of these deployments are theoretical, and a few are enhanced for efficient security against an intruder. In this article, a boundary technique approach is proposed and applied to the physical layer to improve its secrecy‐capacity and subdue adversary effects at the legitimate receiver. Hybrid performance metrics were adopted, and a Monte Carlo simulation was performed. The result obtained using secrecy outage probability, secrecy‐capacity, and intercept‐probability show that our proposed techniques enhance the secret transmission between the main transmitter and legitimate receiver. The simulation results were compared with the analytical methods. It was found that the channel between the transmitter and the main receiver has a better signal‐to‐noise ratio than the corresponding eavesdropper's channel. Conclusively, performance of the proposed technique is validated for applications in emerging wireless communication systems.

DOI
10.1002/spy2.288

Related papers

Performance of physical layer security with different service integrity parameters

Akhila Naga Sree Ravali Padala, Kavya Kommana

Information security has been a very important issue in wireless networks. With the ever-increasing amount of data being exchanged over wireless networks, the confidentiality of information needs to be protected from unauthorized users called eavesdropper. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium, the transmissions between legitimate users maybe overheard and intercepted by the unauthorized parties, which makes wireless transmission vulnerable to potential eavesdropping attacks. The security of wireless communications plays an increasingly important role in the cybercrime defense against unauthorized activities. We consider the wireless physical layer security which has been explored for the sake of enhancing the protection of wireless communications against eavesdroppers. We consider the problem of secret communication through Rayleigh fading channel in the presence of an eavesdropper in which the transmitter knows the channel state information of both the main and eavesdropper channel. Then, we analyze the average capacity of the main channel and eavesdropper channel from which an expression of secrecy capacity is derived based on the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of the signal to noise ratio. We also analyze an expression for the symbol error rate of the main channel, and the outage probability is obtained for the main transmission. Finally, we perform the numerical results in MATLAB.

•Jan 1, 2018•1 citation

Physical layer security based on spread‐spectrum watermarking and jamming receiver

Simone Soderi, Lorenzo Mucchi, Matti Hämäläinen +2 more

Abstract Wireless communications' infrastructures are frequently selected as a cable replacement in many applications giving an immediate advantage on the wireless investment. However, the worldwide proliferation of wireless local area network (WLAN) imposed large investments on the network security. In the early days of Internet, its layered protocol stack did not consider security as a primary concern. Because then, a significant amount of literature has been published. This paper proposes a watermark‐based blind physical layer security utilizing a jamming receiver in conjunction with the spread spectrum watermarking technique. The outage probability of the secrecy capacity is analytically derived, regardless of the eavesdropper position. The theoretical analysis let us draw a secure region around the legitimate receiver. Results indicate how the watermark‐based blind physical layer security aims to be a valuable technique for deploying physical layer security. Authors utilized 2 performance metrics, the outage probability of secrecy capacity for assessing the secure communication effectiveness and the error probability for evaluating the watermark extraction process. Finally, the proposed protocol improves the secrecy capacity performance if compared with other protocols, and moreover, it has a lower energy consumption.

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies•Dec 19, 2016•38 citations

Improving physical-layer security in wireless communications using diversity techniques

Yulong Zou, Jia Zhu, Xianbin Wang +1 more

Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, wireless transmission can be readily overheard by unauthorized users for interception purposes and is thus highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. To this end, physical-layer security is emerging as a promising paradigm to protect the wireless communications against eavesdropping attacks by exploiting the physical characteristics of wireless channels. This article is focused on the investigation of diversity techniques to improve physical-layer security differently from the conventional artificial noise generation and beamforming techniques, which typically consume additional power for generating artificial noise and exhibit high implementation complexity for beamformer design. We present several diversity approaches to improve wireless physical-layer security, including multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), multiuser diversity, and cooperative diversity. To illustrate the security improvement through diversity, we propose a case study of exploiting cooperative relays to assist the signal transmission from source to destination while defending against eavesdropping attacks. We evaluate the security performance of cooperative relay transmission in Rayleigh fading environments in terms of secrecy capacity and intercept probability. It is shown that as the number of relays increases, both the secrecy capacity and intercept probability of cooperative relay transmission improve significantly, implying there is an advantage in exploiting cooperative diversity to improve physical-layer security against eavesdropping attacks.

arXiv:1405.3725•IEEE Network•Jan 1, 2015•281 citations

Physical layer security using an adaptive modulation scheme for improved confidentiality

Lavanya Dhamodharan Loganathan, Ramaprabha Rengaraj, Gunaseelan Konganathan +1 more

Establishing secured communication among the intended users of wireless networks is a major concern. Especially, providing confidentiality is a critical requirement in a wireless communication system which is more susceptible to eavesdroppers. Prevailing cryptographic methods were proven to meet the security needs to some extent. Sophisticated encryption techniques cannot be always deployed in wireless devices, where the resources are limited. However, physical layer security is recently emerging into a promising paradigm to aid security in wireless networks by exploiting the dynamics of wireless channel. In this study, a physical layer security technique was proposed to enhance confidentiality which selects the modulation type adaptively, based on both channel signal‐to‐noise ratio and phase between transmitter and receiver. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated for two types of eavesdroppers such as random and intelligent attackers through simulations. The proposed method improves confidentiality and throughput while maintaining the targeted symbol error rate than the existing algorithms.

IET Communications•Oct 7, 2019•6 citations

Secrecy Enhancing in Wireless Communication with a Full-Duplexing at the Receiver

Lukman Abiodun Olawoyin, Yue Wu, Hongwen Yang +2 more

Information secrecy is achievable in a broadcast wireless communication system when the adversary channel witness a greater disruption as against the main channel. The secrecy level need to be enhanced as the adversary terminal can use advance method to eaves drop the hidden message being exchanged between the two legitimate communicating partners. The use of relay- assisted node in information-theoretic approach at the physical layer security has been widely researched into but they are mostly operate in a half-duplex mode (HD). With the advancement in electronic technology, the use of a single antenna in full duplex mode (FD) is possible. We explore this property in enhancing the security of a broadcast wireless system at the physical layer. In this work, the transmitter generates artificial noise (AN) while the legitimate receiver(LR) also transmits another jamming noise (JN) from its antenna to unintended receiver (UR) node. The effect of these multiple noises are examined on the secrecy capacity and probability outage capacity on the UR channel. Mathematical analysis and the numerical simulation results show improvement in channel secrecy capacity over the conventional approaches.

Globecom•Dec 1, 2015•3 citations

Secrecy Enhancing in Wireless Communication with a Full-Duplexing at the Receiver

Lukman Abiodun Olawoyin, Yue Wu, Hongwen Yang +2 more

Information secrecy is achievable in a broadcast wireless communication system when the adversary channel witness a greater disruption as against the main channel. The secrecy level need to be enhanced as the adversary terminal can use advance method to eaves drop the hidden message being exchanged between the two legitimate communicating partners. The use of relay- assisted node in information-theoretic approach at the physical layer security has been widely researched into but they are mostly operate in a half-duplex mode (HD). With the advancement in electronic technology, the use of a single antenna in full duplex mode (FD) is possible. We explore this property in enhancing the security of a broadcast wireless system at the physical layer. In this work, the transmitter generates artificial noise (AN) while the legitimate receiver(LR) also transmits another jamming noise (JN) from its antenna to unintended receiver (UR) node. The effect of these multiple noises are examined on the secrecy capacity and probability outage capacity on the UR channel. Mathematical analysis and the numerical simulation results show improvement in channel secrecy capacity over the conventional approaches.

Globecom•Dec 1, 2014•0 citations
Abstract The broadcast nature of radio propagation in wireless communication has been suspected as the loopholes of passive or active attacks by unauthorized users (eavesdroppers). The physical layer security techniques operate at the lowest stack of OSI layer against conventional cryptographic approaches, operating at the upper layer. However, techniques such as channel coding, power (directional antenna and artificial noise), and spread spectrum have been (and continuously) deployed to safeguard against sophisticated attacks. Most of these deployments are theoretical, and a few are enhanced for efficient security against an intruder. In this article, a boundary technique approach is proposed and applied to the physical layer to improve its secrecy‐capacity and subdue adversary effects at the legitimate receiver. Hybrid performance metrics were adopted, and a Monte Carlo simulation was performed. The result obtained using secrecy outage probability, secrecy‐capacity, and intercept‐probability show that our proposed techniques enhance the secret transmission between the main transmitter and legitimate receiver. The simulation results were compared with the analytical methods. It was found that the channel between the transmitter and the main receiver has a better signal‐to‐noise ratio than the corresponding eavesdropper's channel. Conclusively, performance of the proposed technique is validated for applications in emerging wireless communication systems.
Information security has been a very important issue in wireless networks. With the ever-increasing amount of data being exchanged over wireless networks, the confidentiality of information needs to be protected from unauthorized users called eavesdropper. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium, the transmissions between legitimate users maybe overheard and intercepted by the unauthorized parties, which makes wireless transmission vulnerable to potential eavesdropping attacks. The security of wireless communications plays an increasingly important role in the cybercrime defense against unauthorized activities. We consider the wireless physical layer security which has been explored for the sake of enhancing the protection of wireless communications against eavesdroppers. We consider the problem of secret communication through Rayleigh fading channel in the presence of an eavesdropper in which the transmitter knows the channel state information of both the main and eavesdropper channel. Then, we analyze the average capacity of the main channel and eavesdropper channel from which an expression of secrecy capacity is derived based on the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of the signal to noise ratio. We also analyze an expression for the symbol error rate of the main channel, and the outage probability is obtained for the main transmission. Finally, we perform the numerical results in MATLAB.
Abstract Wireless communications' infrastructures are frequently selected as a cable replacement in many applications giving an immediate advantage on the wireless investment. However, the worldwide proliferation of wireless local area network (WLAN) imposed large investments on the network security. In the early days of Internet, its layered protocol stack did not consider security as a primary concern. Because then, a significant amount of literature has been published. This paper proposes a watermark‐based blind physical layer security utilizing a jamming receiver in conjunction with the spread spectrum watermarking technique. The outage probability of the secrecy capacity is analytically derived, regardless of the eavesdropper position. The theoretical analysis let us draw a secure region around the legitimate receiver. Results indicate how the watermark‐based blind physical layer security aims to be a valuable technique for deploying physical layer security. Authors utilized 2 performance metrics, the outage probability of secrecy capacity for assessing the secure communication effectiveness and the error probability for evaluating the watermark extraction process. Finally, the proposed protocol improves the secrecy capacity performance if compared with other protocols, and moreover, it has a lower energy consumption.
Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, wireless transmission can be readily overheard by unauthorized users for interception purposes and is thus highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. To this end, physical-layer security is emerging as a promising paradigm to protect the wireless communications against eavesdropping attacks by exploiting the physical characteristics of wireless channels. This article is focused on the investigation of diversity techniques to improve physical-layer security differently from the conventional artificial noise generation and beamforming techniques, which typically consume additional power for generating artificial noise and exhibit high implementation complexity for beamformer design. We present several diversity approaches to improve wireless physical-layer security, including multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), multiuser diversity, and cooperative diversity. To illustrate the security improvement through diversity, we propose a case study of exploiting cooperative relays to assist the signal transmission from source to destination while defending against eavesdropping attacks. We evaluate the security performance of cooperative relay transmission in Rayleigh fading environments in terms of secrecy capacity and intercept probability. It is shown that as the number of relays increases, both the secrecy capacity and intercept probability of cooperative relay transmission improve significantly, implying there is an advantage in exploiting cooperative diversity to improve physical-layer security against eavesdropping attacks.
Establishing secured communication among the intended users of wireless networks is a major concern. Especially, providing confidentiality is a critical requirement in a wireless communication system which is more susceptible to eavesdroppers. Prevailing cryptographic methods were proven to meet the security needs to some extent. Sophisticated encryption techniques cannot be always deployed in wireless devices, where the resources are limited. However, physical layer security is recently emerging into a promising paradigm to aid security in wireless networks by exploiting the dynamics of wireless channel. In this study, a physical layer security technique was proposed to enhance confidentiality which selects the modulation type adaptively, based on both channel signal‐to‐noise ratio and phase between transmitter and receiver. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated for two types of eavesdroppers such as random and intelligent attackers through simulations. The proposed method improves confidentiality and throughput while maintaining the targeted symbol error rate than the existing algorithms.
Information secrecy is achievable in a broadcast wireless communication system when the adversary channel witness a greater disruption as against the main channel. The secrecy level need to be enhanced as the adversary terminal can use advance method to eaves drop the hidden message being exchanged between the two legitimate communicating partners. The use of relay- assisted node in information-theoretic approach at the physical layer security has been widely researched into but they are mostly operate in a half-duplex mode (HD). With the advancement in electronic technology, the use of a single antenna in full duplex mode (FD) is possible. We explore this property in enhancing the security of a broadcast wireless system at the physical layer. In this work, the transmitter generates artificial noise (AN) while the legitimate receiver(LR) also transmits another jamming noise (JN) from its antenna to unintended receiver (UR) node. The effect of these multiple noises are examined on the secrecy capacity and probability outage capacity on the UR channel. Mathematical analysis and the numerical simulation results show improvement in channel secrecy capacity over the conventional approaches.
Information secrecy is achievable in a broadcast wireless communication system when the adversary channel witness a greater disruption as against the main channel. The secrecy level need to be enhanced as the adversary terminal can use advance method to eaves drop the hidden message being exchanged between the two legitimate communicating partners. The use of relay- assisted node in information-theoretic approach at the physical layer security has been widely researched into but they are mostly operate in a half-duplex mode (HD). With the advancement in electronic technology, the use of a single antenna in full duplex mode (FD) is possible. We explore this property in enhancing the security of a broadcast wireless system at the physical layer. In this work, the transmitter generates artificial noise (AN) while the legitimate receiver(LR) also transmits another jamming noise (JN) from its antenna to unintended receiver (UR) node. The effect of these multiple noises are examined on the secrecy capacity and probability outage capacity on the UR channel. Mathematical analysis and the numerical simulation results show improvement in channel secrecy capacity over the conventional approaches.