Power Allocation Tradeoffs in Multicarrier Authentication Systems

Abstract

Physical layer authentication techniques exploit signal characteristics to uniquely identify radios. We describe how multicarrier systems may use such techniques to stealthily authenticate while maintaining high levels of security and robustness. We show that with channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and receiver, multicarrier authentication systems can further improve performance by carefully allocating the authentication power over each carrier.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA503417

Entities

People

  • B.m. Sadler
  • J.s. Baras
  • P.l. Yu

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Authentication
  • Channel Models
  • Channel State Information
  • Coding
  • Decoding
  • Detection
  • Equations
  • Error Correction Codes
  • Errors
  • False Alarms
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Probability
  • Symbols
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.