Physical Layer Authentication for Mission Critical Machine Type Communication using Gaussian Mixture Model based Clustering

11/14/2017
by   Andreas Weinand, et al.
0

The application of Mission Critical Machine Type Communication (MC-MTC) in wireless systems is currently a hot research topic. Wireless systems are considered to provide numerous advantages over wired systems in e.g. industrial applications such as closed loop control. However, due to the broadcast nature of the wireless channel, such systems are prone to a wide range of cyber attacks. These range from passive eavesdropping attacks to active attacks like data manipulation or masquerade attacks. Therefore it is necessary to provide reliable and efficient security mechanisms. Some of the most important security issues in such a system are to ensure integrity as well as authenticity of exchanged messages over the air between communicating devices. In the present work, an approach on how to achieve this goal in MC-MTC systems based on Physical Layer Security (PHYSEC) is presented. A new method that clusters channel estimates of different transmitters based on a Gaussian Mixture Model is applied for that purpose. Further, an experimental proof-of-concept evaluation is given and we compare the performance of our approach with a mean square error based detection method.

READ FULL TEXT

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

research
11/10/2017

Providing Physical Layer Security for Mission Critical Machine Type Communication

The design of wireless systems for Mission Critical Machine Type Communi...
research
11/14/2017

Application of Machine Learning for Channel based Message Authentication in Mission Critical Machine Type Communication

The design of robust wireless communication systems for industrial appli...
research
07/30/2018

Security Solutions for Local Wireless Networks in Control Applications based on Physical Layer Security

The Design of new wireless communication systems for industrial applicat...
research
02/12/2020

Wi-Fi Channel Saturation as a Mechanism to Improve Passive Capture of Bluetooth Through Channel Usage Restriction

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology that provides audio and d...
research
06/27/2018

Physical Layer Authentication in Mission-Critical MTC Networks: A Security and Delay Performance Analysis

We study the detection and delay performance impacts of a feature-based ...
research
07/14/2020

Securing the Insecure: A First-Line-of-Defense for Nanoscale Communication Systems Operating in THz Band

Nanoscale communication systems operating in Ter-ahertz (THz) band are a...
research
05/18/2020

Acoustic Integrity Codes: Secure Device Pairing Using Short-Range Acoustic Communication

Secure Device Pairing (SDP) relies on an out-of-band channel to authenti...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset