More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/

research-article

Public Access

Security in terahertz WLANs with Leaky wave antennas

Authors:

Yasaman Ghasempour,

Yasith Amarasinghe,

Daniel M. Mittleman,

Edward W. KnightlyAuthors Info & Claims

WiSec '20: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

Pages 317 - 327

https://doi.org/10.1145/3395351.3399365

Published: 21 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents the first security study of THz networks with Leaky Wave Antennas (LWAs). We employ a mix of analytical models and over-the-air experiments to explore the unique security properties of LWA links. We show via both models and experiments that the LWA's angle-frequency coupling leads to non-uniform secrecy capacity across sub-channels yielding advantages to an eavesdropper at edge frequencies. Yet, because different frequencies emit energy at different angles, the eavesdropper is thwarted from easily intercepting an entire wideband transmission. The experiments diverge from the analytical model in that the model underpredicts the eavesdropper's advantage at angles smaller than the target user and subsequent asymmetric performance across angles. Nonetheless, both the model and measurements show that increasingly wide bandwidth and correspondingly wide beams have only a modest marginal security penalty.

References

[1]

Ian F Akyildiz, Josep Miquel Jornet, and Chong Han. 2014. Terahertz Band: Next Frontier for Wireless Communications. Physical Communication 12 (2014), 16--32.

Digital Library

[2]

Grzegorz J Blinowski. 2016. Practical Aspects of Physical and MAC Layer Security in Visible Light Communication Systems. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications 62, 1 (2016), 7--13.

[3]

Jiska Classen, Joe Chen, Daniel Steinmetzer, Matthias Hollick, and Edward Knightly. 2015. The Spy Next Door: Eavesdropping on High Throughput Visible Light Communications. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Visible Light Communications Systems.

Digital Library

[4]

U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 2019. FCC Opens Spectrum Horizons for New Services & Technologies. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-opens-spectrum-horizons-new-services-technologies

[5]

World Radiocommunication Conference. 2019. Resolution 731: Consideration of Sharing and Adjacent-Band Compatibility between Passive and Active Services above 71 GHz. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/conferences/wrc/2019/Documents/PFA-WRC19-E.pdf

[6]

Imre Csiszár and Janos Korner. 1978. Broadcast Channels with Confidential Messages. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 24, 3 (1978), 339--348.

Digital Library

[7]

Irl Duling and David Zimdars. 2009. Revealing Hidden Defects. Nature Photonics 3, 11 (2009), 630--632.

[8]

John Federici and Lothar Moeller. 2010. Review of Terahertz and Subterahertz Wireless Communications. Journal of Applied Physics 107, 11 (2010), 6.

[9]

Xiaojian Fu, Fei Yang, Chenxi Liu, Xiaojun Wu, and Tie Jun Cui. 2020. Terahertz Beam Steering Technologies: From Phased Arrays to Field-Programmable Metasurfaces. Advanced Optical Materials 8, 3 (2020), 1900628.

[10]

Yasaman Ghasempour, Rabi Shrestha, Aaron Charous, Edward Knightly, and Daniel M Mittleman. 2020. Single-Shot Link Discovery for Terahertz Wireless Networks. Nature Communications 11, 1 (2020), 1--6.

[11]

Yasaman Ghasempour, Chia-Yi Yeh, Rabi Shrestha, Daniel M Mittleman, and Edward Knightly. 2020. Single Shot Single Antenna Path Discovery in THz Networks. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.

Digital Library

[12]

Frank Gross. 2010. Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design & Engineering. McGraw Hill Professional.

[13]

Shulabh Gupta, Samer Abielmona, and Christophe Caloz. 2009. Microwave Analog Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer (RTSA) Based on the Spectral-Spatial Decomposition Property of Leaky-Wave Structures. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 57, 12 (2009), 2989--2999.

[14]

Daniel Headland, Yasuaki Monnai, Derek Abbott, Christophe Fumeaux, and Withawat Withayachumnankul. 2018. Tutorial: Terahertz Beamforming, from Concepts to Realizations. Apl Photonics 3, 5 (2018), 051101.

[15]

Josep Miquel Jornet and Ian F Akyildiz. 2011. Channel Modeling and Capacity Analysis for Electromagnetic Wireless Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 10, 10 (2011), 3211--3221.

[16]

Nicholas J Karl, Robert W McKinney, Yasuaki Monnai, Rajind Mendis, and Daniel M Mittleman. 2015. Frequency-Division Multiplexing in the Terahertz Range Using a Leaky-Wave Antenna. Nature Photonics 9, 11 (2015), 717.

[17]

Thomas Kleine-Ostmann and Tadao Nagatsuma. 2011. A Review on Terahertz Communications Research. Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves 32, 2 (2011), 143--171.

[18]

Swen Koenig, Daniel Lopez-Diaz, Jochen Antes, Florian Boes, Ralf Henneberger, Arnulf Leuther, Axel Tessmann, René Schmogrow, David Hillerkuss, Robert Palmer, et al. 2013. Wireless Sub-THz Communication System with High Data Rate. Nature Photonics 7, 12 (2013), 977.

[19]

S Leung-Yan-Cheong and M Hellman. 1978. The Gaussian Wire-Tap Channel. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 24, 4 (1978), 451--456.

Digital Library

[20]

Zang Li, Roy Yates, and Wade Trappe. 2010. Secrecy Capacity of Independent Parallel Channels. In Securing Wireless Communications at the Physical Layer. Springer US, Boston, MA, 1--18.

[21]

Jianjun Ma, Nicholas J Karl, Sara Bretin, Guillaume Ducournau, and Daniel M Mittleman. 2017. Frequency-Division Multiplexer and Demultiplexer for Terahertz Wireless Links. Nature Communications 8, 1 (2017), 1--8.

[22]

Jianjun Ma, Rabi Shrestha, Jacob Adelberg, Chia-Yi Yeh, Zahed Hossain, Edward Knightly, Josep Miquel Jornet, and Daniel M Mittleman. 2018. Security and Eavesdropping in Terahertz Wireless Links. Nature 563, 7729 (2018), 89--93.

[23]

Rajind Mendis and Daniel M Mittleman. 2009. An Investigation of the Lowest-Order Transverse-Electric (TE 1) Mode of the Parallel-Plate Waveguide for THz Pulse Propagation. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 26, 9 (2009), A6--A13.

[24]

Daniel M Mittleman. 2017. Perspective: Terahertz Science and Technology. Journal of Applied Physics 122, 23 (2017), 230901.

[25]

Anamaria Moldovan, Prasanth Karunakaran, Ian F Akyildiz, and Wolfgang H Gerstacker. 2017. Coverage and Achievable Rate Analysis for Indoor Terahertz Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

[26]

Shahid Mumtaz, Josep Miquel Jornet, Jocelyn Aulin, Wolfgang H Gerstacker, Xiaodai Dong, and Bo Ai. 2017. Terahertz Communication for Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 66, 7 (2017), 5617--5625.

[27]

Kosuke Murano, Issei Watanabe, Akifumi Kasamatsu, Safumi Suzuki, Masahiro Asada, Withawat Withayachumnankul, Toshiyuki Tanaka, and Yasuaki Monnai. 2016. Low-Profile Terahertz Radar Based on Broadband Leaky-Wave Beam Steering. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology 7, 1 (2016), 60--69.

[28]

Tadao Nagatsuma, Shogo Horiguchi, Yusuke Minamikata, Yasuyuki Yoshimizu, Shintaro Hisatake, Shigeru Kuwano, Naoto Yoshimoto, Jun Terada, and Hiroyuki Takahashi. 2013. Terahertz Wireless Communications Based on Photonics Technologies. Optics Express 21, 20 (2013), 23736--23747.

[29]

Daniel Steinmetzer, Joe Chen, Jiska Classen, Edward Knightly, and Matthias Hollick. 2015. Eavesdropping with Periscopes: Experimental Security Analysis of Highly Directional Millimeter Waves. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).

[30]

Adrian Sutinjo, Michal Okoniewski, and Ronald H Johnston. 2008. Radiation from Fast and Slow Traveling Waves. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 50, 4 (2008), 175--181.

[31]

Wade Trappe and Lawrence C Washington. 2006. Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory. Pearson.

[32]

Chao Wang and Hui-Ming Wang. 2016. Physical Layer Security in Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 15, 8 (2016), 5569--5585.

Digital Library

[33]

Lifeng Wang, Maged Elkashlan, Trung Q Duong, and Robert W Heath. 2014. Secure Communication in Cellular Networks: The Benefits of Millimeter Wave Mobile Broadband. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).

[34]

Wen-Qin Wang and Zhi Zheng. 2018. Hybrid MIMO and Phased-Array Directional Modulation for Physical Layer Security in mmWave Wireless Communications. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 36, 7 (2018), 1383--1396.

Digital Library

[35]

Aaron D Wyner. 1975. The Wire-Tap Channel. Bell System Technical Journal 54, 8 (1975), 1355--1387.

[36]

Yongxu Zhu, Lifeng Wang, Kai-Kit Wong, and Robert W Heath. 2017. Secure Communications in Millimeter Wave Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 16, 5 (2017), 3205--3217.

Digital Library

Cited By

Yeh CGhasempour YAmarasinghe YMittleman DKnightly E(2024)Security and Angle-Frequency Coupling in Terahertz WLANsIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking10.1109/TNET.2023.332164132:2(1524-1539)Online publication date: Apr-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2023.3321641
Zhu ZWang LWang XTan BJin S(2024)Cell-Free Terahertz Networks: A Spatial-Spectral ApproachIEEE Wireless Communications Letters10.1109/LWC.2023.333133213:2(432-436)Online publication date: Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2023.3331332
Ficzere DVarga PWippelhauser AHejazi HCsernyava OKovács AHegedűs C(2023)Large-Scale Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Deployments Based on 5G—Critical Challenges, Solutions, and Vision towards 6G: A SurveySensors10.3390/s2316703123:16(7031)Online publication date: 8-Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.3390/s23167031
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Security in terahertz WLANs with Leaky wave antennas
1. Security and privacy
  1. Network security
    1. Mobile and wireless security

Recommendations

Development of Fixed Frequency Beam Steering Wide Band Leaky Wave Cavity Antenna

A complete design of substrate integrated leaky wave cavity antenna for fixed frequency beam steering is presented. The antenna consists of a small rectangular metallic tapered cavity fed by hook-shaped element and covered by the substrate. The steering ...
Use of Terahertz Photoconductive Sources to Characterize Tunable Graphene RF Plasmonic Antennas
Graphene, owing to its ability to support plasmon polariton waves in the terahertz frequency range, enables the miniaturization and electrical tunability of antennas to allow wireless communications among nanosystems. One of the main challenges in the ...
Comparison of Diverse Shaped Graphene Microstrip Patch Terahertz Antennas and Performance Investigation of Penta Model on Disparate Substrates
Abstract
This article used graphene as the patch and ground plane to model a five-sided pentagon patch antenna rather than a rectangular, triangular, or hexagonal patch. The proposed antenna was used and compared to its characteristics with different ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

WiSec '20: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

July 2020

366 pages

ISBN:9781450380065

DOI:10.1145/3395351

General Chairs:
René Mayrhofer
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, AT
,
Michael Roland
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, AT

Copyright © 2020 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

Sponsors

SIGSAC: ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control

In-Cooperation

SIGMOBILE: ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 21 July 2020

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Funding Sources

Cisco Systems
Center for Selective C-H Functionalization, National Science Foundation
Army Research Laboratory
Intel Corporation

Conference

WiSec '20

Sponsor:

SIGSAC

WiSec '20: 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

July 8 - 10, 2020

Linz, Austria

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 98 of 338 submissions, 29%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

17
Total Citations
View Citations
482
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)118
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)19

Reflects downloads up to 14 Dec 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Yeh CGhasempour YAmarasinghe YMittleman DKnightly E(2024)Security and Angle-Frequency Coupling in Terahertz WLANsIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking10.1109/TNET.2023.332164132:2(1524-1539)Online publication date: Apr-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2023.3321641
Zhu ZWang LWang XTan BJin S(2024)Cell-Free Terahertz Networks: A Spatial-Spectral ApproachIEEE Wireless Communications Letters10.1109/LWC.2023.333133213:2(432-436)Online publication date: Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2023.3331332
Ficzere DVarga PWippelhauser AHejazi HCsernyava OKovács AHegedűs C(2023)Large-Scale Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Deployments Based on 5G—Critical Challenges, Solutions, and Vision towards 6G: A SurveySensors10.3390/s2316703123:16(7031)Online publication date: 8-Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.3390/s23167031
Sun YHe YZhang JNa XChen YWang WGuo XEskicioglu RHuang PPatwari N(2023)BIFROST: Reinventing WiFi Signals Based on Dispersion Effect for Accurate Indoor LocalizationProceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems10.1145/3625687.3625786(376-389)Online publication date: 12-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3625687.3625786
Lin ZWang LDing JXu YTan B(2023)Tracking and Transmission Design in Terahertz V2I NetworksIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications10.1109/TWC.2022.321164722:6(3586-3598)Online publication date: Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2022.3211647
Yeh CCohen AD’Oliveira RMédard MMittleman DKnightly E(2023)Securing Angularly Dispersive Terahertz Links With CodingIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security10.1109/TIFS.2023.326766418(3546-3560)Online publication date: 2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2023.3267664
Cohen AD'Oliveira RYeh CGuerboukha HShrestha RFang ZW. Knightly EMédard MMittleman D(2023)Absolute Security in Terahertz Wireless LinksIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing10.1109/JSTSP.2023.330790617:4(819-833)Online publication date: Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTSP.2023.3307906
Mannem NPark JErfani ELiu ELee JWang H(2023)A Reconfigurable Phase-Time Array Transmitter Achieving Keyless Secured Transmission and Multi-Receiver Localization for Low-Latency Joint Communication and SensingIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits10.1109/JSSC.2023.323746258:7(1898-1912)Online publication date: Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2023.3237462
Wang HYang FLiu YYang ZJiang HLiu YLi MZhang J(2023)Photonics-Assisted Broadband Frequency-Hopping System for W-Band MMW Secure Communications2023 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference/2023 International Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (ACP/POEM)10.1109/ACP/POEM59049.2023.10369691(1-4)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACP/POEM59049.2023.10369691
Lin ZWang LTan BLi X(2022)Spatial-Spectral Terahertz NetworksIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications10.1109/TWC.2021.312491821:6(3881-3892)Online publication date: Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2021.3124918
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents