Patent ID: 8931053
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An adaptive secure wireless communications system comprising: (a) at least two transceivers operable to receive at least one signal and to transmit at least one signal; (b) a physical-layer attributes monitoring module within each of said at least two transceivers, operable to estimate at least two physical-layer attributes from the at least one received signal; (c) one or more confidence testing modules within each of said at least two transceivers, operable to perform one or more tests, at least one of said one or more tests involving weighted combinations of the at least two physical-layer attributes in a single test on the at least one received signal; (d) an authentication controller module within each of said at least two transceivers, said authentication controller module being operable to determine adaptation of authentication of said at least one received signal between said at least two transceivers based on results of the one or more tests; (e) an adaptation communication module within each of said at least two transceivers, operable to adapt one or more parameters of the at least two transceivers in accordance with an authentication of the at least one received signal and one or more characteristics of the one or more of the at least two transceivers to enhance the security of the adaptive secure wireless communications system, an adaptation of said one or more parameters being initiated by said at least two transceivers; and (f) a security signaling generator module within each of said at least two transceivers for integrating concurrent or conjugated system adaptation information and security control information with a data-carrying signal and for coordinating said security control information between said at least two transceivers; wherein security threats to said at least one received signal are reduced and wherein said at least two transceivers authenticate and adapt the at least one received signal in a manner selected from: