Title
Message Integrity Protection over Wireless Channel by Countering Signal Cancellation: Theory and Practice
Abstract
Physical layer message integrity protection and authentication by countering signal-cancellation has been shown as a promising alternative to traditional pure cryptographic message authentication protocols, due to the non-necessity of neither pre-shared secrets nor secure channels. However, the security of such an approach remained an open problem due to the lack of systematic security modeling and quantitative analysis. In this paper, we first establish a novel correlated jamming framework to study the optimal signal-cancellation attacker's behavior and utility using game-theory, which precisely captures the attacker's knowledge using its correlated channel estimates in various channel environments. Besides, we design a practical physical layer message integrity protection protocol based on ON/OFF keying and Manchester coding, which provides quantitative security guarantees in the real-world. Such a guarantee is achieved by bounding the attacker's knowledge about the future channel via proactively measuring channel statistics (mimic the attacker), so as to derive a lower-bound to the defender's signal-detection probability under optimal correlated jamming attacks. We conduct extensive experiments and simulations to show the security and performance of the proposed scheme. We believe our novel threat modeling and quantitative security analysis methodology can benefit a wide range of physical layer security problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2714576.2714617
ASIACCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
security and protection,wireless communication
Internet privacy,Authentication,Message authentication code,Computer science,Threat model,Cryptography,Computer security,Computer network,Communication channel,Physical layer,Security analysis,Jamming
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
19
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yantian Hou18410.54
Ming Li25595829.00
Ruchir Chauhan330.38
Ryan M. Gerdes44112.72
Kai Zeng582566.24