It is well known that physical-layer key generation methods enable wireless devices to harvest symmetric keys by accessing the randomness offered by the wireless channels. Although two-user key generation is well understood, group secret-key (GSK) generation, wherein more than two nodes in a network generate secret-keys, still poses open problems. Recently, Manish Rao et al., have proposed the Algebraic Symmetrically Quantized GSK (A-SQGSK) protocol for a network of three nodes wherein the nodes share quantized versions of the channel realizations over algebraic rings, and then harvest a GSK. Although A-SQGSK protocol guarantees confidentiality of common randomness to an eavesdropper, we observe that the key-rate of the protocol is poor since only one channel in the network is used to harvest GSK. Identifying this limitation, in this paper, we propose an opportunistic selection method wherein more than one wireless channel is used to harvest GSKs without compromising the confidentiality feature, thereby resulting in remarkable improvements in the key-rate. Furthermore, we also propose a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) generation method for the common randomness observed at various nodes, so that the soft-values are applied to execute LDPC codes based reconciliation to reduce the bit mismatches among the nodes.
翻译:众所周知,物理界关键生成方法使无线设备能够通过访问无线频道提供的随机性来获取对称键。虽然对两用户关键生成非常理解,但组密钥生成(GSK)生成,其中网络中有两个以上的节点产生密钥,仍构成未解决的问题。最近,Manish Rao等人提议了“代数对称同步GSK(A-SQGSK)”协议,用于一个由三个节点组成的网络,在这个网络中,对频道实现的音频分分数版本超过代数,然后采集一个GSK。尽管A-SQK协议保证对一个窃听器的普通随机性保密性,但我们认为,由于网络中只有一个频道用于获取GSK(A-SQGSK),协议的关键节点组合组合共享分数版本,然后采集一个GSK。此外,我们提议,由于网络中只有一个频道只使用一个频道来捕获GK(A-SQGSK)(A-SQQK),因此在关键节率上进行显著的改进,因此,我们提议采用一种随机的LLLR(基于共同的对等的对等的对价)方法。此外,我们还提议采用一种随机的对等的对价比方法,对制。