Physical Layer Privacy in Broadcast Channels

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Abstract

In industrial IoT scenarios, attackers observe communication systems to find relations between transmitted messages and receivers, in order to conduct impersonation or man-in-the-middle attacks. Therefore, unlinkability and anonymity are desirable properties of the corresponding communications. In this paper, we connect the differential privacy (DP)-based notion, receiver-message unlinkability (RML), to the physical layer secrecy metrics for a degraded discrete memoryless broadcast channel including two receivers and an external adversary. To characterize this connection, we show that Kullback-Leibler-DP-based RML, (0,δ)-DP-based RML, strong secrecy, and distinguishing secrecy are equivalent up to a multiplicative constant. We then analyze the achievable rate region of the DP-based RML for the considered model by adapting a coding scheme which can achieve strong secrecy. A numerical comparison of the achievable rate regions of binary symmetric degraded broadcast channels under RML, strong secrecy, and a case without secrecy or privacy constraint illustrates the relationship.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (electronic)978-1-7281-3217-4
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2019
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)

Conference

Title2019 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2019
Duration9 - 12 December 2019
CityDelft
CountryNetherlands

External IDs

Scopus 85083025849