• DocumentCode
    1388612
  • Title

    Build-in wiretap channel I with feedback and LDPC codes

  • Author

    Wen, Hong ; Gong, Guang ; Ho, Pin-Han

  • Author_Institution
    UESTC, China
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    538
  • Lastpage
    543
  • Abstract
    A wiretap channel I is one of the channel models that was proved to achieve unconditional security. However, it has been an open problem in realizing such a channel model in a practical network environment. The paper is committed to solve the open problem by introducing a novel approach for building wiretap channel I in which the eavesdropper sees a binary symmetric channel (BSC) with error probability p while the main channel is error free. By taking advantage of the feedback and low density parity check (LDPC) codes, our scheme adds randomness to the feedback signals from the destination for keeping an eavesdropper ignorant; on the other hand, redundancy is added and encoded by the LDPC codes such that a legitimate receiver can correctly receive and decode the signals. With the proposed approach, unconditionally-secure communication can be achieved through interactive communications, in which the legitimate partner can realize the secret information transmission without a pre-shared secret key even if the eavesdropper has better channel from the beginning.
  • Keywords
    Bit error rate; Channel models; Decoding; Error probability; Parity check codes; Receivers; Security; Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes; security; wiretap channel;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications and Networks, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1229-2370
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JCN.2009.6388407
  • Filename
    6388407