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Spread spectrum directional modulation method based on the  irrelevantly switched antenna for physical layer security transmission

GUO Bin;YANG Yuhong;XIN Gang;TANG Yanqun   

  1. (Institute of Information Engineering, Information Engineering Univ., Zhengzhou 450001, China)
  • Received:2016-01-15 Online:2017-04-20 Published:2017-05-26

Abstract:

In order to improve the security of wireless communication, a spread spectrum directional modulation method based on the irrelevantly switched antenna is presented. First, the security vulnerabilities of the existing spread spectrum directional modulation method are analyzed, indicating that the existing method has the risk of security leakage in some particular directions. Then by locating the security vulnerabilities of the existing method, a security-enhanced method is proposed by separating the antenna switching from the spectrum spreading to eliminate the security vulnerabilities. Finally, the physical layer security performance of two directional modulation methods is simulated, with the results showing that the proposed method has a better low detection performance and anti-jamming capability.

Key words: physical layer security, spread spectrum communication, directional modulation, switch, antenna array