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dc.contributor.authorBottarelli, Mirko
dc.contributor.authorKaradimas, Petros
dc.contributor.authorEpiphaniou, Gregory
dc.contributor.authorKbaier Ben Ismail, Dhouha
dc.contributor.authorMaple, Carsten
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-16T12:07:39Z
dc.date.available2021-02-16T12:07:39Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-03
dc.identifier.citationBottarelli, M., Karadimas, P., Epiphaniou, G., Ismail, D. K. B. and Maple, C. (2021) Adaptive and optimum secret key establishment for secure vehicular communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 70(3), pp. 2310-2321 doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3056638.en
dc.identifier.issn0018-9545en
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/tvt.2021.3056638en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/623932
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by IEEE in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, available online: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3056638 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractIn intelligent transportation systems (ITS), communications between vehicles, i.e. vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications are of greatest importance to facilitate autonomous driving. The current state-of-the-art for secure data exchange in V2V communications relies on public-key cryptography (PKC) consuming significant computational and energy resources for the encryption/decryption process and large bandwidth for the key distribution. To overcome these limitations, physical-layer security (PLS) has emerged as a lightweight solution by exploiting the physical characteristics of the V2V communication channel to generate symmetric cryptographic keys. Currently, key-generation algorithms are designed via empirical parameter settings, without resulting in optimum key-generation performance. In this paper, we devise a key-generation algorithm for PLS in V2V communications by introducing a novel channel response quantisation method that results in optimum performance via analytical parameter settings. Contrary to the current state-of-the-art, the channel responses incorporate all V2V channel attributes that contribute to temporal variability, such as three dimensional (3D) scattering and scatterers' mobility. An extra functionality, namely, Perturbe-Observe (PO), is further incorporated that enables the algorithm to adapt to the inherent non-reciprocity of the V2V channel responses at the legitimate entities. Optimum performance is evidenced via maximisation of the key bit generation rate (BGR) and key entropy (H) and minimisation of the key bit mismatch rate (BMR). A new metric is further introduced, the so-called secret-bit generation rate (SBGR), as the ratio of the number of bits which are successfully used to compose keys to the total amount of channel samples. SBGR unifies BGR and BMR and is thus maximised by the proposed algorithmic process.en
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dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)en
dc.relation.urlhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9346002en
dc.titleAdaptive and optimum secret key establishment for secure vehicular communicationsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1939-9359
dc.identifier.journalIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologyen
dc.date.updated2021-02-09T17:21:49Z
dc.date.accepted2021-01-27
rioxxterms.funderEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilen
rioxxterms.identifier.project301563en
rioxxterms.versionAMen
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-02-16en
dc.source.volume70
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage1
dc.source.beginpage2310
dc.source.endpage1
dc.source.endpage2321
dc.description.versionPublished version
refterms.dateFCD2021-02-16T12:07:12Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2021-02-16T12:07:40Z


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