2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDIFS-5.3
Paper Title SECRET KEY GENERATION OVER WIRELESS CHANNELS USING SHORT BLOCKLENGTH MULTILEVEL SOURCE POLAR CODING
Authors Henri Hentilä, Aalto University, Finland; Yanina Shkel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; Visa Koivunen, Aalto University, Switzerland
SessionIFS-5: Privacy and Information Security
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 15:30 - 16:15
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 15:30 - 16:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Information Forensics and Security: [CIT] Communication And Information Theoretic Security
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Abstract This paper investigates the problem of secret key generation from correlated Gaussian random variables in the short blocklength regime. Inspired by the state-of-the-art performance provided by polar codes in the short blocklength regime for channel coding, we propose an explicit protocol based on polar codes for generating the secret keys. This protocol differs from previously proposed key generation protocols based on polar coding in two main ways: (i) we consider a Gaussian source for the key generation; (ii) we focus on the short blocklength regime. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol performs well even for very short blocklengths, especially if one can relax the BER requirements for the generated keys. They also demonstrate that the polar code based protocol outperforms a similar one using LDPC codes in place of polar codes, and that this advantage grows the shorter the blocklength becomes.