Improvement on Secrecy Capacity of Wireless LAN Using Matched Filter

Wire-tap channel coding allows information-theoretically secure communication between legitimate sender and receiver in presence of an eavesdropper Eve, whose channel is subject to noise. A secrecy capacity for their communication is equal to capacity of the channel connecting them, minus capacity of Eve´s channel, when the channels are assumed independent and affected by additive white Gaussian noise. In order to increase the secrecy capacity, we propose to employ a coding scheme using matched filter. The legitimate parties are assumed to share a pre-shared key of the matched filter, secretly from Eve. Hereby, the legitimate parties can use it to increase the capacity of their channel, while Eve cannot. We propose to apply this scheme to indoor wireless communication over IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN, analyze advantages of our construction and discuss an appropriate selection of coding scheme fitting the IEEE 802.11 protocol specification.