Physical Layer Security: Error Control Coding for Information Theoretic Security in Wireless and Beyond

研究该方案的研究内容包括：1）窃听信道的基本原理：可靠性和安全性的差错控制码，2）物理层的无线安全，3）高可靠性和安全的分布式数据存储。在所有领域的重点不仅是在理论上，但在实际的算法，以实现非常高的安全性和可靠性的信息theory.The承诺和合作：约一半的工作，在这一建议将与合作者在欧洲连接到格鲁吉亚洛林技术（GTL）校园在梅斯，法国在PI是前研究主任，目前副主任。2006年3月，PI和他的同事与法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）合作，建立了一个联合研究中心，致力于安全网络和先进材料的国际合作，这是法国第一个此类中心。该中心接待了来自四个机构的十五人和十个项目。这项提议的无线部分将与波尔图大学（J.Barros）和剑桥大学（M. Rodrigues）。我们项目的国际部分包含机遇和挑战。例如，今天招收和培养研究生的情况的特点是：i）申请美国大学的学生减少，特别是来自中国和印度的学生，ii）缺乏美国学生在美国以外获得有意义的工程教育和研究经验。我们相信这个项目，加上GTL在法国的校园，可以解决这些挑战中的一些，并帮助培养未来的工程师，教育工作者和研究人员具有更全球化的视野。这个项目的更广泛的影响有两个方面：i）全球连接与新的无线安全概念的商业化途径; ii）培养研究生跨越国界的新模式。学生和教师将参加新的和长期的国际研究和教育活动。这些学生将拥有更加全球化的视野，有机会与欧洲学生和教师进行长期互动，该项目将有助于（为公司，大学和政府机构）识别具有全球视野的杰出人士。该模型解决了美国和国外不断变化的环境和学生和教师的需求。从理论和实践的角度来看，其智力价值在于物理层通信的新方法。高度安全和可靠的物理层的概念有可能显著改变人们对物理层的看法。在这项工作中的错误控制码将具有可靠性和安全性的双重作用，增加了一个新的维度，已经研究了60多年的主题。我们相信，这里提出的研究将导致如何传统的通信系统的感知和使用的变化，是下一个自然的步骤，在更高的性能，物理层通信系统。

The research. The research topics in this proposal are: 1) Fundamentals for the wiretap channel:error control codes for reliability and security, 2) Opportunistic wireless physical-layer security, 3) Highlyreliable and secure distributed data storage. In all areas the focus is not only on theory but on practicalalgorithms to achieve the very high levels of security and reliability promised by information theory.The PI and collaborations: About half of the work in this proposal will be done with collaboratorsin Europe connected to the Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) campus in Metz, France where the PI wasformerly Director of Research and currently Deputy Director. In March 2006, the PI and his colleagues, inpartnership with the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), established a joint researchcenter dedicated to international collaborations in secure networks and advanced materials, the first suchcenter of its kind in France. This center hosts fifteen people and ten projects from four institutions. Thewireless portion of this proposal will be done in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Porto (J.Barros) and Cambridge University (M. Rodrigues). The international component of our project createsopportunities and challenges. For example, the landscape for recruiting and educating graduate studentstoday is characterized by i) decreases in the students applying to US universities, particularly from Chinaand India, and ii) a lack of US students getting meaningful engineering educational and research experienceoutside the US. We believe this project, coupled with the GTL campus in France, can address some ofthese challenges and help create future engineers, educators and researchers with a more global perspective.The broader impact of this project has two dimensions: i) global connections with a pathway tocommercialization of new wireless security concepts; and ii) new models for training graduate studentsacross national boundaries. The students and faculty would participate in new and long-lasting internationalresearch and educational activities. These students will have a much more global perspective, have theopportunity to interact on a long-term basis with European students and faculty, and the project wouldserve to identify (for companies, universities and government agencies) outstanding people with a globalperspective. This model addresses the changing landscape and needs of student and faculty in the US andabroad.The intellectual merit is in new approaches to physical layer communications, from both theoreticaland practical perspectives. The notion of a highly secure and reliable physical layer has the potential tosignificantly change how people think of the physical layer. The error control codes in this work will havethe dual roles of reliability and security, adding a new dimension to a subject that has been studiedextensively for more than 60 years. We believe the research presented here will result in changes in howclassical communication systems are perceived and used, and is the next natural step in higherperformance, physical layer communication systems.