Eavesdropping Area for Evaluating the Security of Wireless Communications

作     者：Xiaofeng Zhong Chenchen Fan Shidong Zhou Xiaofeng Zhong;Chenchen Fan;Shidong Zhou

作者机构：Tsinghua University Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology Department of Electronic EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China 

出 版 物：《China Communications》 (中国通信（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第19卷第3期

页      面：145-157页

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学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 08[工学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 080402[工学-测试计量技术及仪器] 

主　　题：eavesdropping area wireless communication anti-eavesdropping performance transmitting scheme 

摘      要：Compared with wired communication,the wireless communication link is more vulnerable to be attacked or eavesdropped because of its broadcast nature.To prevent eavesdropping,many researches on transmission techniques or cryptographic methods are carried out.This paper proposes a new index parameter named as eavesdropping area,to evaluate the anti-eavesdropping performance of wireless system.Given the locations of legitimate transmitter and receiver,eavesdropping area index describes the total area of eavesdropping regions where messages can be wiretapped in the whole evaluating region.This paper gives detailed explanations about its concept and deduces mathematical formulas about performance curves based on region classification.Corresponding key system parameters are analyzed,including the characteristics of eavesdropping region,transmitted beam pattern,beam direction,receiver sensitivity,eavesdropping sensitivity,path loss exponent and so on.The proposed index can give an insight on the confirmation of high-risk eavesdropping region and formulating optimal transmitting scheme for the confidential communications to decrease the eavesdropping probability.