A Security Enhancement Technique for Wireless Communications Using Secret Sharing and Physical Layer Secrecy Transmission

• Published in: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Vol. E99.D; no. 4; pp. 830 - 838
• Main Authors: YAMASAKI, Shoichiro, MATSUSHIMA, Tomoko K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers 2016
• Subjects: Computer information security; Encryption; Errors; Exchange; multi-antenna transmission; Packet transmission; physical layer security; Reed-Solomon codes; Secrecy aspects; secret sharing; Terminals; Wireless communication

Secret sharing is a method of information protection for security. The information is divided into n shares and reconstructed from any k shares, but no knowledge of the information is revealed from k-1 shares. Physical layer security is a method of achieving favorable reception conditions at the des...