A physical layer security enhancement scheme for CO-OFDM systems based on 3D Brownian motion and TZBN Joint Scramble

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a scheme for enhancing the physical layer security and transmission performance of coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) systems. The scheme for OFDM data first after 3-dimensional (3D) Brownian motion rotational permutation, and then according to the time zone and band number (TZBN) scrambling to achieve the effect of further data perturbation, which through the SHA-256 algorithm and 6-dimensional (6D) hyperchaotic processing to obtain the chaotic keys to enhance the security. After simulation experiment of 16QAM CO-OFDM security system transmitting over 80 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) at the symbol rate of 30 Gbaud, it is shown that the encryption scheme can guarantee that the authorized user receives valid data and the eavesdropper obtains the information with the BER of about 0.5. The key space of the scheme is about 2.88×10194, which can effectively resist attacks such as violent attacks and chosen plaintext attacks. And the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) can be reduced by about 1.09 dB while the encryption process.