Secret Sharing Simultaneously in Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) enables information sharing among massive small and cheap wireless devices. However, the secret key sharing process in massive IoT applications becomes more challenging due to the low latency communication requirements and resource constrained IoT devices. To adress those probelms, we propose a physical layer secret key sharing scheme for MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) IoT applications, which can realize secret key sharing with communication simultaneously. This is because the information of secret key is attached in the combination of the activated/non-activated parallel sub-channels of the legitimate receiver, which is created by SVD (singular value decomposition) of the MIMO channel of the legitimate receiver. Consequently, the legitimate receiver can accurately obtain the shared key and demodulate the communication data with an arbitrary low key BER and BER (bit error rate). The simulation results verified the validity and security of the proposed scheme.