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Time-varying Metamaterial-enabled Directional Modulation Schemes for Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communication Links

Authors:

Alireza Nooraiepour,

Shaghayegh Vosoughitabar,

Chung-Tse Michael Wu,

Waheed U. Bajwa,

Narayan B. MandayamAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), Volume 18, Issue 4

Article No.: 64, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/3513088

Published: 13 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Novel transmission schemes, enabled by recent advances in the fields of metamaterial (MTM), leaky-wave antenna (LWA) and directional modulation (DM), are proposed for enhancing the physical layer (PHY) security. MTM-LWAs, which offer compact, integrated, and cost-effective alternatives to the classic phased-array architectures, are particularly of interest for emerging wireless communication systems including Internet-of-Things. The proposed secure schemes are devised to accomplish the functionalities of directional modulation (DM) transmitters for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and non-contiguous OFDM transmissions, while enjoying the implementation benefits of MTM-LWAs. Specifically, transmitter architectures based on the idea of time-modulated MTM-LWA have been put forth as a promising solution for PHY security for the first time. The PHY security for the proposed schemes are investigated from the point of view of both passive and active attacks where an adversary aims to decode secret information and feed spurious data to the legitimate receiver, respectively. Numerical simulations reveal that even when the adversary employs sophisticated state-of-the-art deep learning based attacks, the proposed transmission schemes are resistant to these attacks and reliably guarantee system security.

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ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems Volume 18, Issue 4

October 2022

429 pages

ISSN:1550-4832

EISSN:1550-4840

DOI:10.1145/3563906

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Published: 13 October 2022

Online AM: 23 March 2022

Accepted: 21 January 2022

Revised: 03 November 2021

Received: 28 April 2021

Published in JETC Volume 18, Issue 4

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