In this letter, a leaky-wave focusing antenna with a tapered dielectric constant distribution is introduced. The main appeal of the structure is the simplicity and low cost by which the tapering is achieved in the fab...
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In this letter, a leaky-wave focusing antenna with a tapered dielectric constant distribution is introduced. The main appeal of the structure is the simplicity and low cost by which the tapering is achieved in the fabrication process where the required effective dielectric constant profile is actualized by three-dimensional printing in less than an hour using the commonly available and inexpensive polylactic acid material. A detailed design method of the structure is presented and the desired focusing effect demonstrated by both simulation and experimental results at Ku-band.
Satellite communication networks have gained a lot of attention recently as a solution to mitigate the limitations of terrestrial networks such as stability and coverage. However, integrating satellite and terrestrial...
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Satellite communication networks have gained a lot of attention recently as a solution to mitigate the limitations of terrestrial networks such as stability and coverage. However, integrating satellite and terrestrial networks makes the system more vulnerable to spoofing attacks. Thus, robust and effective authentication is required. Physical layer authentication (PLA) has emerged as an alternative paradigm that uses physical characteristics to achieve authentication. In this paper, PLA is proposed for low earth orbit (LEO) satellites using the Doppler frequency shift (DS) and received power (RP) characteristics. Hypothesis testing using a threshold or machine learning (ML) is considered to discriminate between legitimate and illegitimate satellites. For ML, a one-class classification support vector machine (OCC-SVM) is employed which uses training data from only legitimate users. The performance is evaluated using real satellite data from the system tool kit (STK). Results are presented which show that the authentication rate (AR) with DS is higher than with RP at low elevation angles for both schemes, but is higher with RP at high elevation angles. Further, the ML authentication scheme provides a higher AR than the threshold scheme for a small percentage of the training data considered as outliers, but at larger percentages the OR threshold scheme is better.
This paper concerns the problem of defending against spoofing attacks without a secret key. We address the problem using the Physical-Layer-Authentication (PLA) because of its high security, low overhead, and high com...
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This paper concerns the problem of defending against spoofing attacks without a secret key. We address the problem using the Physical-Layer-Authentication (PLA) because of its high security, low overhead, and high compatibility. However, many PLA schemes have the following limitations: quantization errors, local optimums, and performance loss due to the change in the communication environment. In this paper, two phase-noise-based PLA schemes are proposed to address the limitations of the prior schemes. We denote the first scheme as the Multiple Phase Noises PLA (MPP) scheme, which realizes the PLA by using multiple phase noise innovations. Note that since the MPP scheme avoids using any quantization algorithm, it outperforms the prior schemes on the authentication performance. We denote the second scheme as the Enhanced Multiple Phase Noises PLA (EMPP) scheme, which introduces an artificial random phase to the transmitted symbols at the transmitter to further improve the authentication performance. The theoretical analyses of the proposed schemes over fading channels are provided, where the closed-form expressions are derived. Theoretical comparisons between the proposed schemes and prior schemes are provided. The theoretical analyses and simulation results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed schemes. In comparison with the prior schemes, the MPP scheme achieves 13% authentication-performance gain without demodulation-performance loss, while the EMPP scheme achieves 42% authentication-performance gain with merely 16% demodulation-performance loss.
The main outdoor factors that reduce the efficiency of the photovoltaic (PV) panel are the reflection and refraction of light, dirt, dust, and organic waste accumulating on the panel surface. In this article, an antir...
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The main outdoor factors that reduce the efficiency of the photovoltaic (PV) panel are the reflection and refraction of light, dirt, dust, and organic waste accumulating on the panel surface. In this article, an antireflection, self-cleaning coating was applied on the PV panel cover glass with a new method. With the coating, the surface has been given a hydrophobic feature. As a coating method, a 3-D printer has not been seen in the literature and used as a new method. The electrospinning method has also been tried as an alternative method. Solutions in different combinations were developed using polylactic acid or polymethylmethacrylate polymer, chloroform ($\text{CHCl}_3$) as a solvent, and silicon dioxide ($\text{SiO}_2$) and titanium dioxide ($\text{TiO}_2$) nanoparticles as primary materials in a modified 3-D printer for bioprinting. Five PV panels were obtained by applying different 3-D parameters from three solutions, which have the best results. Coating thicknesses are in the range of 3.12-8.47 mu m. Coated and uncoated PV panels were tested in outdoor conditions for ten-day periods. The power outputs of the PV panels were measured, and their ten-day average efficiency was presented. According to the results, the highest efficiency increase is 8.7%. The highest light transmittance is 88.2% at 550 nm. In addition, hydrophobic properties were observed on all surfaces and the water contact angle was measured as 96.18 degrees.
Current developments in the field of 3-D printing have employed embedded electronics, in order to implement innovative devices and sensors. In this work, we present the analysis, fabrication, and experimental results ...
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Current developments in the field of 3-D printing have employed embedded electronics, in order to implement innovative devices and sensors. In this work, we present the analysis, fabrication, and experimental results of a novel, fully 3-D printable differential capacitive anemometric sensor for low-power applications. The system exploits a multimaterial fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology to print standard polylactic acid (PLA) filament as well as electrically conductive filament, employed to implement a differential capacitive air pressure sensor, embedded in a printed spherical structure, able to measure the wind speed. A theoretical analysis for the mechanical structure design, focusing on the 3-D printed bending behavior, as well as for fluid dynamics of the sensor and the electronic circuitry design has been conducted. Simulations and measurements of the fabricated prototype have demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed wind sensor. Differential capacitive variations have been observed by applying constant airflow through the sensor, showing a good agreement with the simulated behavior.
As the reentry target passes through the atmosphere at hypersonic velocity, its surface is covered with a plasma sheath. The plasma sheath produces an amplitude-phase modulation effect on the radar echo and increases ...
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As the reentry target passes through the atmosphere at hypersonic velocity, its surface is covered with a plasma sheath. The plasma sheath produces an amplitude-phase modulation effect on the radar echo and increases the signal component of the radar echo, which seriously affects the radar's reliable detection of reentry target and leads to a series of abnormal radar detection problems. Through the radar echo model of the plasma-sheath-covered target, the multidomain characteristics of the echo signal are analyzed, and the electromagnetic (EM) shielding effect of the plasma sheath on EM waves is revealed. Based on the intrapulse Doppler frequency extraction technology, a design method of false target filter is proposed, which can effectively suppress false targets generated by the plasma sheath. Through the simulation analysis of single-period echo signals and multiperiod echo signals, the feasibility of the algorithm in this article is verified, and the reliability of the algorithm is verified by statistical experiment analysis, which lays a theoretical foundation for reliable radar detection of plasma-sheath-covered target.
Physical layer authentication (PLA) is a promising complement for the cryptographic-based authentication scheme, especially for Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios with massive devices. Traditional PLA schemes exploiti...
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Physical layer authentication (PLA) is a promising complement for the cryptographic-based authentication scheme, especially for Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios with massive devices. Traditional PLA schemes exploiting channel state information (CSI) face significant challenges in mobile communication scenarios due to the unknown variation of wireless channels. To address this challenge, we propose a PLA scheme based on Gaussian process (GP) channel prediction, where the variation of channel characteristics is tracked and predicted. Specifically, historical CSI attributes together with the transmitter's geographical information are exploited to establish a mapping to predict the next legitimate CSI for authentication. Furthermore, to overcome the impracticality of applying conventional PLA framework for authentication, where an unrealistic assumption that either the prior knowledge of the adversary's statistical channel model or even the real observations of its CSI data is required, we propose the so-called one-class authentication (OCA) scheme, which does not require any attacker's channel information. We exploit the quasideterministic radio channel generator (QuaDRiGa) simulation platform as the generator of CSI for experimental verifications. Simulation tests are performed to demonstrate that our method improves authentication performance significantly in time-varying scenarios.
A neural network hardware inspired by the 3-D NAND flash array structure was experimentally demonstrated in a standard 65-nm CMOS process. logic-compatible embedded flash memory cells were used for storing multi-level...
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A neural network hardware inspired by the 3-D NAND flash array structure was experimentally demonstrated in a standard 65-nm CMOS process. logic-compatible embedded flash memory cells were used for storing multi-level synaptic weights while a bit-serial architecture enables 8 bit x 8 bit multiply-and-accumulate operation. A novel back-pattern tolerant program-verify scheme reduces the cell current variation to less than 0.6 mu A. Positive and negative weights are stored in adjacent bitlines, generating a differential output signal. Our eNAND-based neural network core achieves a 98.5% handwritten digit recognition accuracy which is within 0.5% of the software accuracy for the same weight precision. To the best of our knowledge, this work represents the first physical demonstration of an embedded NAND flash-based compute-in-memory chip in a standard logic process.
The heterogeneous characteristics of wireless mobile networks within the Internet of things (IoT) create authentication challenges due to the large number of devices with diverse requirements and capabilities. Physica...
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The heterogeneous characteristics of wireless mobile networks within the Internet of things (IoT) create authentication challenges due to the large number of devices with diverse requirements and capabilities. Physical layer authentication (PLA) can provide solutions for this heterogeneous environment using wireless channel attributes. In the paper, an adaptive lightweight physical layer authentication (ALPLA) scheme is proposed using machine learning (ML). Antenna diversity at the receiver is exploited to increase the number of features to achieve a high authentication rate (AR). A one-class classifier support vector machine (OCC-SVM) is used with the magnitude and real and imaginary parts of the received signal at each receive antenna as features. One-class classification is a ML technique for outlier and anomaly detection which uses only legitimate training data. The sounding reference signal (SRS) in the 5G uplink radio frame is employed to obtain the features. The proposed scheme is evaluated in an urban environment under different mobility conditions. Results are presented which show that this scheme provides a high AR with sufficient antenna diversity. Further it is superior to other approaches in the literature.
In this paper, we propose a game theoretic framework for secure physical layer authentication (PLA) by applying the spatial correlations of received signal strength (RSS) in the air-to-ground channels between an unman...
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In this paper, we propose a game theoretic framework for secure physical layer authentication (PLA) by applying the spatial correlations of received signal strength (RSS) in the air-to-ground channels between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a legitimate transmitter, and a spoofer. Based on our hypothesis model, we first derive the false alarm rate and miss detection rate for the UAV receiver. We then formulate a zero-sum PLA game where the UAV receiver selects its RSS detection threshold while the spoofer selects its attack probability to maximize their respective utilities. We derive the Nash equilibrium (NE) and its existence condition for the proposed PLA game. Monte Carlo simulation results accurately verify our analytical expressions for the false alarm rate and miss detection rate. Numerical results highlight the complex interplay between the detection threshold, spoofing attack probability and UAV altitude in the derived NE.
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