The multipath-rich wireless atmosphere allied with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a vanishing channel retort that is time-varying, location-sensitive, and only shared by a given transmitter–receiver pair. The complexity allied with a highly scattering atmosphere implies that the short-term vanishing process is intrinsically hard to envisage and best modeled stochastically, with speedy decorrelation properties in space, time, and frequency. Here we reveal how the channel position between a wireless transmitter and receiver can be used as the basis for building practical secret key establishment protocols between two terminals. We start off by presenting a system based on level crossings of the vanishing process, which is compatible for the Rayleigh and Rician fading models allied with a highly scattering atmosphere. The level crossing algorithm is simple, and incorporates a self-authenticating method to prevent adversarial exploitation of data interactions during the protocol. As the level crossing algorithm is best matched for vanishing processes that show equilibrium in their underlying distribution, we present a second and more authoritative approach that is suited for more wide-ranging channel status distributions. This second method is motivated by interpretation from dividing mutually Gaussian processes, but exploits empirical dimensions to set quantization boundaries and a heuristic log probability ratio estimate to achieve a higher secret key generation rate. We evaluate both projected protocols through demonstrations using a customized IEEE 802.11 a stage, and show the effect from the hackers point of view.

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