Due to the publicly-known deterministic characteristic of pilot tones, pilot-aware attack, by jamming, nulling and spoofing pilot tones, can significantly paralyze the uplink channel training in large-scale MISO-OFDM systems. To solve this, we in this paper develop an independencechecking coding based (ICCB) uplink training architecture for one-ring scattering scenarios allowing for uniform linear arrays (ULA) deployment. Here, we not only insert randomized pilots on subcarriers for channel impulse response (CIR) estimation, but also diversify and encode subcarrier activation patterns (SAPs) to convey those pilots simultaneously. The coded SAPs, though interfered by arbitrary unknown SAPs in wireless environment, are qualified to be reliably identified and decoded into the original pilots by checking the hidden channel independence existing in subcarriers. Specifically, an independence-checking coding (ICC) theory is formulated to support the encoding/decoding process in this architecture. The optimal ICC code is further developed for guaranteeing a wellimposed estimation of CIR while maximizing the code rate. Based on this code, the identification error probability (IEP) is characterized to evaluate the reliability of this architecture. Interestingly, we discover the principle of IEP reduction by exploiting the array spatial correlation, and prove that zero-IEP, i.e., perfect reliability, can be guaranteed under continuouslydistributed mean angle of arrival (AoA). Besides this, a novel closed form of IEP expression is derived in discretely-distributed case. Simulation results finally verify the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. Index Terms-Physical layer security, pilot-aware attack, OFDM, channel estimation, independence-checking coding.
To solve those issues, our previous work in REF proposed an independence-checking coding (ICC) method which provides high authenticity guarantee on the FS channel and CIR estimation based on randomized pilot tones.
Optimal Independence-Checking Coding for Secure Uplink Training in Large-Scale MISO-OFDM Systems
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Computer Science Engineering