Physical Layer Protection Against Relay/Replay Attacks for Short-Range Systems

Chrys Paschou; Oliver T Johnson; Ziming Zhu; Angela Doufexi

doi:10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118588

Physical Layer Protection Against Relay/Replay Attacks for Short-Range Systems

Chrys Paschou^*, Oliver T Johnson, Ziming Zhu, Angela Doufexi

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Abstract

In response to the rise of crime in short-range communication systems, a novel method for authenticating co-located devices is presented. Our method, Channel Randomness Yields Secure Proximity (ChRYSP) exploits the fundamental properties of the wireless RF channel to protect against relay attacks and replay attacks - the two most common impersonation attacks in short-range communication systems. ChRYSP is based on the fact that two devices in close proximity - typically a couple of wavelengths - experience correlated fading on a received RF signal. ChRYSP is facilitated by the employment of a helper node and can be implemented by low-cost, narrowband transceivers. Numerical results demonstrate high accuracy in detecting both relay attacks and replay attacks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	1558-2612
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-9122-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118588
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2023
Event	2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) - Duration: 26 Mar 2023 → 29 Mar 2023

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Name	IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications and Networking
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511
ISSN (Electronic)	1558-2612

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Conference	2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
Period	26/03/23 → 29/03/23

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This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant number EP/I028153/1 and Toshiba Research Europe Limited.

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Keywords

authentication
multipath fading
physical layer security
relay attack
replay attack
short-range communications
spatial channel correlation

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Paschou, C., Johnson, O. T., Zhu, Z., & Doufexi, A. (2023). Physical Layer Protection Against Relay/Replay Attacks for Short-Range Systems. In 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications and Networking). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118588

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Paschou, C , Johnson, OT, Zhu, Z & Doufexi, A 2023, Physical Layer Protection Against Relay/Replay Attacks for Short-Range Systems. in 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications and Networking, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 26/03/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118588

Physical Layer Protection Against Relay/Replay Attacks for Short-Range Systems. / Paschou, Chrys ; Johnson, Oliver T; Zhu, Ziming et al.
2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023. (IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications and Networking).

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