Improved Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communications by Using Focused Light Emitters

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2021

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Erdem, Mehmet Can
Cirkinoglu, H. Ozan
Ferhanoglu, Onur
Kurt, Gunes Karabulut
Panayırcı, Erdal

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A conventional visible light communication system consists of a transmitter, a jammer that includes a few light emitting diodes, a legal listener and an eavesdropper. In this work, a similar system is designed with a collimating lens in order to create an extra layer of practical physical security measure. The use of a collimating lens makes it available to spatially limiting data transmission to an area under the lensed transmitter. Also focused data transmission through the optical lens, increases the secrecy rate. To investigate the applicability of the proposed design we designed a sample experimental setup using USRP and implemented in a laboratory environment. In the proposed set up, the receiver is in a fixed position. However, it is possible to implement an easy, practical and cheap hardware solution with respect to a beam forming type VLC that uses directional beam forming method to establish transmission to a dynamic target. In addition, it is achievable to control the size of the area where a receiver can access data by manipulating the distance between the optical lens and transmitter.

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29th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU) -- JUN 09-11, 2021 -- ELECTR NETWORK

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Physical layer security, visible light communications, collimating lens

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29th Ieee Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (Siu 2021)

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