EAGER: SARE: Dynamic Phase Center Antennas for Secure Sensing and Communications

EAGER：SARE：用于安全传感和通信的动态相位中心天线

• 批准号: 2028736
• 负责人: Jeffrey Nanzer
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028736&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; SARE; Dynamic; Phase; Center

The rapid increase in the use of wireless devices in commercial products for sensing and communications has led to significant societal improvements. However, every wireless connection, whether for sensing or communications, represents a potential access point for security threats, whether malicious or accidental. Vulnerabilities that are well-known to the military sensing community, such as jamming, interference, and spoofing, are increasingly becoming potential vulnerabilities for commercial sensors, from automotive networks and radar, to in-home sensors, to body-worn gesture recognition radars. Beyond this, hacking threats have been evolving, with researchers demonstrating the ability to control vehicles remotely through the wireless communications channels on modern vehicles. To address these emerging challenges of wireless security, this project will investigate a novel approach to mitigate vulnerabilities at the physical layer by using dynamic antennas. By dynamically moving the phase centers of antennas in space and time, the information transmitted and received by the antenna can be filtered at the physical layer, significantly reducing the impact of malicious signals before they enter the wireless system. The goal of this research is to investigate new methods of physical layer security of sensing and communication systems through dynamic modulation of antenna phase centers. Prior work by the principal investigator has demonstrated the ability of dynamic antenna arrays to support directional modulation; this research will explore the concept at the antenna level and develop novel antenna structures with phase center dynamics. The effort has the following objectives: 1) explore the theoretical foundations of phase center dynamics in antennas; 2) design and develop new dynamic antennas jointly with signal processing in wireless systems; 3) demonstrate additional security in sensing and wireless communications provided by dynamic antennas. This research will develop new theoretical foundations for dynamic antennas, potentially leading to new design concepts and new areas of study in the field of applied electromagnetics. Through an inherently interdisciplinary approach, the work will focus on wireless system security design from a holistic viewpoint, including the electromagnetic aperture, the transceiver system, and signal processing, leading to potentially new ways of designing and characterizing wireless systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

无线设备在用于感测和通信的商业产品中的使用的快速增加已经导致显著的社会改善。然而，每一个无线连接，无论是用于传感还是通信，都代表着安全威胁的潜在接入点，无论是恶意的还是意外的。军事传感界众所周知的漏洞，如干扰，干扰和欺骗，越来越多地成为商业传感器的潜在漏洞，从汽车网络和雷达，到家用传感器，再到身体佩戴的手势识别雷达。除此之外，黑客威胁一直在发展，研究人员展示了通过现代车辆上的无线通信信道远程控制车辆的能力。为了应对这些无线安全的新挑战，本项目将研究一种新的方法，通过使用动态天线来减轻物理层的漏洞。通过在空间和时间上动态移动天线的相位中心，可以在物理层对天线发送和接收的信息进行过滤，显著降低恶意信号进入无线系统之前的影响。本研究的目的是探讨通过天线相位中心的动态调制来实现传感和通信系统物理层安全的新方法。首席研究员先前的工作已经证明了动态天线阵列支持定向调制的能力;这项研究将在天线层面探索这一概念，并开发具有相位中心动态的新型天线结构。这项工作有以下目标：1）探索天线中相位中心动态的理论基础; 2）设计和开发新的动态天线与无线系统中的信号处理; 3）证明动态天线在传感和无线通信中提供的额外安全性。这项研究将为动态天线开发新的理论基础，可能导致新的设计概念和应用电磁学领域的新研究领域。通过固有的跨学科方法，工作将集中在无线系统安全设计从整体的角度来看，包括电磁孔径，收发器系统和信号处理，这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估来支持的搜索.

项目成果

A Dynamic Array Using Spatial Amplitude Modulation With an Asymmetric Wilkinson Power Divider for Secure Wireless Applications

• DOI: 10.1109/lawp.2023.3310911
• 发表时间: 2023-12
• 期刊: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Jacob R. Randall;Amer Abu Arisheh;Jason M. Merlo;J. Nanzer

Array Phase Center Dynamics Using Spatial Amplitude Modulation for High Efficiency Secure Wireless Communication

使用空间幅度调制的阵列相位中心动态实现高效安全无线通信

• DOI: 10.1109/tap.2023.3323141
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Randall, Jacob R.;Merlo, Jason M.;Arisheh, Amer Abu;Nanzer, Jeffrey A.
• 通讯作者: Nanzer, Jeffrey A.

A Dynamic Pattern Dipole Antenna for Secure Wireless Communications

用于安全无线通信的动态模式偶极天线

• DOI: 10.1109/ap-s/usnc-ursi47032.2022.9887173
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI
• 作者: Abu Arisheh, Amer;Merlo, Jason M.;Nanzer, Jeffrey A.
• 通讯作者: Nanzer, Jeffrey A.

Dynamic Radiation Pattern of a Two-Element Antenna Array with Spatial Amplitude Modulation

• DOI: 10.1109/usnc-ursi52151.2023.10238221
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)
• 作者: Jacob R. Randall;J. Nanzer

Design of a Single-Element Dynamic Antenna for Secure Wireless Applications

• DOI: 10.1109/tap.2023.3288013
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Amer Abu Arisheh;Jason M. Merlo;J. Nanzer