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Physical-Layer Security

Physical-Layer Security

Physical-Layer Security

From Information Theory to Security Engineering
Matthieu Bloch, Georgia Institute of Technology
João Barros, Universidade do Porto
September 2011
Hardback
9780521516501
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    This complete guide to physical-layer security presents the theoretical foundations, practical implementation, challenges and benefits of a groundbreaking new model for secure communication. Using a bottom-up approach from the link level all the way to end-to-end architectures, it provides essential practical tools that enable graduate students, industry professionals and researchers to build more secure systems by exploiting the noise inherent to communications channels. The book begins with a self-contained explanation of the information-theoretic limits of secure communications at the physical layer. It then goes on to develop practical coding schemes, building on the theoretical insights and enabling readers to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the design of physical layer security schemes. Finally, applications to multi-user communications and network coding are also included.

    • Presents the theoretical foundations, practical implementation, challenges and benefits of a groundbreaking new model for secure communication: physical-layer security
    • Provides essential practical tools enabling readers to build more secure systems
    • Includes a broad treatment of passive and active attacks at the physical layer, setting out the vulnerabilities that can be exploited by eavesdroppers and jammers

    Product details

    December 2011
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781139118743
    0 pages
    0kg
    79 b/w illus. 7 tables
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • Part I. Preliminaries:
    • 1. An information-theoretic approach to physical-layer security
    • 2. Fundamentals of information theory
    • Part II. Information-Theoretic Security:
    • 3. Secrecy capacity
    • 4. Secret-key capacity
    • 5. Security limits of Gaussian and wireless channels
    • Part III. Coding and System Aspects:
    • 6. Coding for secrecy
    • 7. System aspects
    • Part IV. Other Applications of Information-Theoretic Security:
    • 8. Secrecy and jamming in multi-user channels
    • 8. Network coding security.
      Authors
    • Matthieu Bloch , Georgia Institute of Technology

      Matthieu Bloch is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, error-control coding, wireless communications and quantum cryptography.

    • João Barros , Universidade do Porto

      João Barros is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, and the Coordinator of the Porto Laboratory of the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany, in 2004 and has since published extensively in the general areas of information theory, communication networks and security. He has taught short courses and tutorials at various institutions and has received a Best Teaching Award from the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences and the Arts.