Physical layer security: All-optical cryptography in access networks

Author

Cincotti, Gabriella ; Sacchieri, Valentina ; Manzacca, Gianluca ; Kataoka, Nobuyuki ; Wada, Naoya ; Nakagawa, Naoki ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Electron., Univ. of Roma Tre, Rome

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

130

Abstract

The physical layer security of passive optical networks (PON) is investigated within a rigorous cryptoanalysis framework; we consider different threats and confidentiality attacks and propose different secure optical code division multiple access (OCDMA)-based architectures.

Keywords

channel capacity; code division multiple access; cryptography; optical fibre subscriber loops; OCDMA; access networks; all-optical cryptography; channel capacity; cryptoanalysis framework; optical code division multiple access; passive optical networks; physical layer security; Cryptography; Data security; Decoding; Encoding; Multiaccess communication; Optical network units; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Physical layer; bit-ciphering; block-ciphering; cryptography; optical code division multiple access (OCDMA); passive optical network (PON); security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598751

Filename

4598751