Workshop on Wireless Physical Layer Security


Monday, 8 June 2015 • 09:00 – 18:00

WS-11: Wireless Physical Layer Security (WPLS)

Organizer: Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany)

The emergence of large-scale, dynamic, and decentralized wireless networks imposes new challenges on classical security measures such as cryptography. To this end, researchers have been seeking new solutions to complement cryptography and significantly improve the overall security of wireless communication networks. One of the most promising ideas is to exploit the physical layer characteristics of the wireless channel such as fading or noise, which are traditionally seen as impediments, for improving the security of wireless transmission against passive (e.g., eavesdropping) or active (e.g., jamming) attacks.. This emerging security technique, known as physical layer security, has drawn considerable attention in the past few years. This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results related to physical layer security in wireless networks.


Welcome Session

Keynote-1: The Wireless Physical Layer: A Medium for Information Extraction and Exploitation

Wireless networks are becoming prolific, and the implication is that they create imprints on our environment-- new sources of information that can be examined to arrive at a variety of societal benefits and societal threats. The wireless medium allows for the creation of many new services, such location-based services as well as new forms of security services. On the other hand, it is now possible to examine the information traversing the wireless to infer information that might have previously been considered inaccessible. This talk will examine the broad implications associated with pervasive wireless connectivity, ranging from the new types of applications that can be created by tapping into the wireless fabric to new types of security and privacy threats unique to the wireless medium. After completing a high-level survey of such issues and opportunities, the talk will turn to a detailed examination of security solutions that may be devised at the physical layer. Such physical layer security activity has pulled from a broad variety of traditional research areas, ranging from traditional cryptographic security to information theoretic security, from theoretical efforts focused on understanding fundamental limits to systems efforts targeted at proving that the proposed theories can in fact be realized in real systems. The talk will examine how physical layer methods can be leveraged to develop authentication and confidentiality services. The talk will present some of the basic theories being used, as well as present systems-validation efforts that have been conducted. Lastly, we will comment on some of the potential weaknesses that exist in physical layer security and, by doing so, highlight directions for ongoing research.

Oral Session 1: Multi-Antenna Secure Transmissions

Unitary Modulation for Secrecy Enhancement in Multi-antenna Wireless Systems with Only CSIT
Pang-Chang Lan (University of Southern California, USA); Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Tze-Ping Low (MediaTek USA Inc., USA); C.-C. Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)
pp. 417-422
Secure Beamforming and Artificial Noise Design in Interference Networks with Imperfect ECSI
Jian Zhou, Ruohan Cao, Hui Gao, Cong Zhang and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
pp. 423-428

Keynote-2: Secure Communication under Channel Uncertainty and Adversarial Attacks

Information theoretic approaches to security have been examined as a promising complement to current cryptographic techniques. Such information theoretic approaches establish reliable communication and data confidentiality directly at the physical layer of a communication network by taking the properties of the noisy channel into account leading to unconditional security regardless of the computational capabilities of eavesdroppers. The provision of accurate channel state information is a major challenge particularly in wireless communication systems, especially information about the channels to non-legitimate eavesdroppers. In addition, there might be malevolent adversaries who jam or influence the channel of the legitimate users. This talk surveys different models for secure communication under channel uncertainty and adversarial attacks and reviews the corresponding results.

Oral Session 2: Coding and Cooperation for Secrecy

Key Generation with A Byzantine Helper
Wenwen Tu and Lifeng Lai (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
pp. 429-434
Performance assessment and design of finite length LDPC codes for the Gaussian wiretap channel
Marco Baldi, Giacomo Ricciutelli, Nicola Maturo and Franco Chiaraluce (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
pp. 435-440
On MMSE Properties of Codes for the Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages
Ronit Bustin, Rafael F. Schaefer and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
pp. 441-446
Can Bob Enhance the Security of the Multiple Antenna Wiretap Channel?
Nabil Romero-Zurita (The University of Leeds, Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd., United Kingdom); Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds & International University of Rabat, United Kingdom); Desmond McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)
pp. 447-452

Panel-1: Wireless Physical Layer Security - Myth or Reality

Panelists: Merouane Debbah (Supelec, Huawei, France), Andreas Mueller (Bosch, Germany), Francois Delaveau (Thales, France)

Interactive Poster Session 1: Performance Analysis and New Design of Secure Communications

Achievable Ergodic Secrecy Rate for MIMO SWIPT Wiretap Channels
Jun Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shi Jin (Southeast University, P.R. China); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom); Hongbo Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
pp. 453-458
On Directional Modulation: An Analysis of Transmission Scheme with Multiple Directions
Mohammed A. Hafez and Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)
pp. 459-463
Fundamental Limits of Caching in D2D Networks With Secure Delivery
Zohaib Awan (RUB, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB & Digital Communication Systems, Germany)
pp. 464-469
Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Design in MIMO Wiretap Channels Based on the MMSE Criterion
Lei Zhang and Yunlong Cai (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada); Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
pp. 470-474
Multi-Phase Transmission for Secure Cognitive Radio Networks
Pin-Hsun Lin (TU Dresden, Germany); Frederic Gabry (Huawei Technologies, France Research Center, Sweden); Ragnar Thobaben (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany); Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
pp. 475-479

Interactive Poster Session 2: Performance Analysis and New Design of Secure Communications

MIMO Wiretap Channels with Randomly Located Eavesdroppers: Large-System Analysis
Maksym A. Girnyk (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Frederic Gabry (Huawei Technologies, France Research Center, Sweden); Mikko Vehkaperä (Aalto University, Finland); Lars K. Rasmussen and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
pp. 480-484
Construction of Best Equivocation Codes with Highest Minimum Distance for Syndrome Coding
Salah Al-Hassan (Plymouth University, United Kingdom); Mohammed Ahmed and Martin Tomlinson (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
pp. 485-490
Feedback Based Two-Phase Transmission for Secure SIMO Communications
Chaowen Liu, Wang Wenjie, Pengcheng Mu, Hui-Ming Wang and Weile Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
pp. 491-496
Secure Robust Resource Allocation using Full-Duplex Receivers
Mohammadreza Abedi (Amirkabir University, Iran); Nader Mokari and Hamid Saeedi (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
pp. 497-502
On the Individual Secrecy for Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Receiver Side Information
Yanling Chen (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Onur Ozan Koyluoglu (The University of Arizona, USA); Aydin Sezgin (RUB & Digital Communication Systems, Germany)
pp. 503-508