Secret Key Generation Based on 3D Spatial Angles for UAV Communications

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will be an essential carrier for future wireless communications due to its flexible deployment and low cost. As such, the information security of UAV communications is of paramount concern. In this paper, a novel physical layer secret key generation scheme is proposed for air-to-ground (A2G) UAV multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communications, which is applicable in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. In UAV communications, line-of-sight (LoS) propagation is a distinctive feature, which significantly weakens the performance of channel state information (CSI) based keys. Therefore, a novel channel parameter, three-dimension (3D) spatial angle, is employed to combat against a novel active eavesdropping method, which is termed as Environment Reconstruction based Attack for SEcret keys (ERASE). Compared to the existing plane-angle-based method, our scheme can efficiently utilize spatial resources and provide a higher key generation rate (KGR). The advantages of the proposed scheme are shown through both theoretical analysis and simulations.

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