A new frontier for IoT security emerging from three decades of key generation relying on wireless channels

J Zhang, G Li, A Marshall, A Hu, L Hanzo - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a transformative technology, which is revolutionizing our
everyday life by connecting everyone and everything together. The massive number of …

On maximizing the sum secret key rate for reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted multiuser systems

G Li, C Sun, W Xu, M Di Renzo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Channel reciprocity-based key generation (CRKG) has recently emerged as a new
technique to address the problem of key distribution in wireless networks. However, as this …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface for physical layer key generation: Constructive or destructive?

G Li, L Hu, P Staat, H Elders-Boll… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer key generation (PKG) is a promising means to provide on-the-fly shared
secret keys by exploiting the intrinsic randomness of the radio channel. However, the …

Random shifting intelligent reflecting surface for OTP encrypted data transmission

Z Ji, PL Yeoh, G Chen, C Pan, Y Zhang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a novel encrypted data transmission scheme using an intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) to generate secret keys in wireless communication networks. We …

Deep-learning-based physical-layer secret key generation for FDD systems

X Zhang, G Li, J Zhang, A Hu, Z Hou… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical-layer key generation (PKG) establishes cryptographic keys from highly correlated
measurements of wireless channels, which relies on reciprocal channel characteristics …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted secret key generation in quasi-static environments

T Lu, L Chen, J Zhang, K Cao… - IEEE Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a key generation protocol with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface
(RIS) to boost secret key rate (SKR) in quasi-static environments. Considering a passive …

Information-theoretic secure key sharing for wide-area mobile applications

G Li, H Luo, J Yu, A Hu, J Wang - IEEE Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid growth of handheld devices in the Internet of Things (loT) networks, mobile
applications have become ubiquitous in everyday life. As technology is developed, so also …

A one-time pad encryption scheme based on efficient physical-layer secret key generation for intelligent IoT system

L Chen, K Cao, T Lu, Y Lu, A Hu - China Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The one-time pad (OTP) is an application-layer encryption technique to achieve the
information-theoretic security, and the physical-layer secret key generation (SKG) technique …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted secret key generation in spatially correlated channels

L Hu, G Li, X Qian, A Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a disruptive technology to enhance the
performance of physical-layer key generation (PKG) thanks to its ability to smartly customize …

RIS-Jamming: breaking key consistency in channel reciprocity-based key generation

G Li, P Staat, H Li, M Heinrichs… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Channel Reciprocity-based Key Generation (CRKG) exploits reciprocal channel
randomness to establish shared secret keys between wireless terminals. This new security …