Degree Name
BS
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology
Defense Date
2019-07-31
Publication Date
2019-08-06
First Faculty Advisor
Willie Harrison
First Faculty Reader
Michael Rice
Honors Coordinator
Karl Warnick
Keywords
quadrature amplitude modulation, physicallayer security, security gap, coset coding
Abstract
This thesis propose adding an irregular quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation to a wireless transmission scheme in order to obtain greater control over the signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) required to successfully decode the signal. By altering the separation between adjacent symbols, the minimum required SNR is raised without degradation in the performance of the scheme. This allows the system to adapt to preferable channel conditions for the authorized user, making it harder for eavesdroppers to intercept and decode the transmission, thus making the communication safer. In addition, we show that by overlaying a coset code onto the QAM constellation, a new, stronger security gap metric can be further improved. Results show the effectiveness of this strategy with an interleaved coding for secrecy with a hidden key (ICSHK) scheme.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Searle, Hunter; Gomes, Marco A. C.; Vilela, Joao P.; and Harrison, Willie K., "Irregular Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for Adaptive Physical-Layer Security" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 87.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub_uht/87
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/uht0086