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CONTENTS
5.4 Degree Distribution Distortion and Receiver Performance Deterioration in
Binary Erasure Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
5.5 The First Solution: Wise Assignment of Network Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.6 The Cooperative Solution Performed by the Source and the Relay . . . . . 69
5.7 Results, Conclusions, and Future Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
III
Wireless Physical-layer Secret-key Generation (WPSG)
and Network Coding Techniques for Security Enhancement 75
6 Wireless Physical-layer Secret-key Generation (WPSG) in Relay Networks:
Information Theoretic Limits, Key Extension, and Security Protocol
77
6.1 Cryptosystem of Wireless Physical-layer Secret-key Generation (WPSG) . 78
6.2 Information-Theoretic Limits of the Key Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.3 Possible Key Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
6.4 Investigation of the Key Generation Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.5 Security Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.5.1 Protocol Evaluation in a Scenario of a Two-Relay Fork-Rake Network
with Two Enemies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.5.2 RSF Protocol in Arbitrary Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7 Physical-layer Key Encoding for Wireless Physical-layer Secret-key
Generation (WPSG) with Unequal Security Protection (USP) 91
7.1 Introduction to Physical-layer Key Encoding for a One-Time-Pad Encryptor 92
7.2 Perfect Secrecy in Physical-Layer Key Encoding for a One-Time-Pad Encryptor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7.3 The Equivalent Number of Vulnerable Bits for the Design of Physical-Layer
Key Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
7.4 Literature Review of Scalability in Practical Security Domain . . . . . . . 102