NeTS-ProWIN: Fingerprints in the Ether: Exploiting the Radio Channel to Enhance Wireless Security

NeTS-ProWIN：以太坊中的指纹：利用无线电信道增强无线安全性

• 批准号: 0626439
• 负责人: Wade Trappe
• 金额: $ 58.13万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0626439&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; ProWIN; Fingerprints; Ether; Exploiting

The securing of wireless systems has traditionally employed cryptographic protocols that are modifications of conventional wired security mechanisms. However, the wireless environment enables new forms of intrusion that render such techniques inadequate. At the same time, the properties of the wireless medium comprise a unique source of domain-specific information. This project exploits that information to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. The project utilizes the unique space, time and frequency characteristics of the physical (PHY) layer, in combination with traditional higher layer techniques, to significantly enhance authentication and confidentiality. This cross-layer research is investigating fundamentally new approaches that utilize the statistical correlation properties associated with multipath propagation in designing new protocols. The project work relies on an integration of analysis, simulation and experiment by an interdisciplinary team whose expertise includes RF propagation, PHY-layer communications, statistical analysis, and wireless security and cryptographic protocols. The growing use of wireless communications by consumers, businesses, and governments can be undermined by security attacks that exploit the medium itself. Strengthening the responses to this threat serves all of society. The goals of this project are to uncover how authentication and confidentiality can be achieved using the PHY-layer, under what situations these objectives are achievable, and how much benefit it can add to conventional security mechanisms. This interdisciplinary research and education effort will include wide dissemination of its results in academic and industrial forums spanning both wireless communications and security.

传统上，无线系统的确保采用了加密协议，这些协议是对常规有线安全机制的修改。但是，无线环境使新形式的入侵形式使这种技术不足。同时，无线介质的属性包括特定于域特定信息的唯一来源。该项目利用这些信息来补充和增强传统的安全机制。该项目利用物理（PHY）层的独特空间，时间和频率特征，结合传统的高层技术，可显着增强身份验证和机密性。这项跨层研究正在调查从根本上进行新的方法，该方法利用与多径传播相关的统计相关性能在设计新协议时。该项目的工作依赖于一个跨学科团队的分析，模拟和实验的集成，其专业知识包括RF传播，Phy-Layer通信，统计分析以及无线安全和加密协议。消费者，企业和政府对无线通信的日益增长的使用可能会受到利用媒体本身的安全攻击的破坏。加强对这一威胁的反应为整个社会服务。该项目的目标是发现使用PHY层，在这些情况下可以实现这些目标以及它可以增加传统安全机制的多收益，可以使用PHY层如何实现身份验证和机密性。这项跨学科的研究和教育工作将包括在跨越无线通信和安全性的学术和工业论坛中广泛传播其结果。