2017/11/10 by Andreas Weinand, Weinand, Andreas, Abhijit Ambekar +5
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Authentication Protocols Security #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IoT Networks and Protocols #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Wireless Body Area Networks
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.03806
openalex publication_date 2017/11/10 · openalex created_date 2022/10/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The design of wireless systems for Mission Critical Machine Type\nCommunication (MC-MTC) is currently a hot research topic. Wireless systems are\nconsidered to provide numerous advantages over wired systems in industrial\napplications for example. However, due to the broadcast nature of the wireless\nchannel, such systems are prone to a wide range of cyber attacks. These range\nfrom passive eavesdropping attacks to active attacks like data manipulation or\nmasquerade attacks. Therefore it is necessary to provide reliable and efficient\nsecurity mechanisms. One of the most important security issue in such a system\nis to ensure integrity as well as authenticity of exchanged messages over the\nair between communicating devices in order to prohibit active attacks. In the\npresent work, an approach on how to achieve this goal in MC-MTC systems based\non Physical Layer Security (PHYSEC), especially a new method based on keeping\ntrack of channel variations, will be presented and a proof-of-concept\nevaluation is given.\n