Biblio

This paper investigates the optimization of physical layer security in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enabled visible light communication (VLC) networks. In the considered model, one transmitter equipped with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) intends to send confidential messages to legitimate users while one eavesdropper attempts to eavesdrop on the communication between the transmitter and legitimate users. This security problem is formulated as an optimization problem whose goal is to minimize the sum mean-square-error (MSE) of all legitimate users while meeting the MSE requirement of the eavesdropper thus ensuring the security. To solve this problem, the original optimization problem is first transformed to a convex problem using successive convex approximation. An iterative algorithm with low complexity is proposed to solve this optimization problem. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the sum MSE of legitimate users by up to 40% compared to a conventional zero forcing scheme.

Recently, the physical layer security (PLS) is becoming an important research area for visible light communication (VLC) systems. In this paper, the secrecy rate performance is investigated for an indoor multi-user visible light communication (VLC) system using artificial noise (AN). In the considered model, all users simultaneously communicate with the legitimate receiver under wiretap channels. The legitimate receiver uses the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) equalizer to detect the received signals. Both lower bound and upper bound of the secrecy rate are obtained for the case that users' signals are uniformly distributed. Simulation results verify the theoretical findings and show the system secrecy rate performance for various positions of illegal eavesdropper.

The circulating current in the D-winding may cause primary current waveform distortion, and the reliability of the restraint criterion based on the typical magnetizing inrush current characteristics will be affected. The magnetizing inrush current with typical characteristics is the sum of primary current and circulating current. Using the circulating current to compensate the primary current can improve the reliability of the differential protection. When the phase is not saturated, the magnetizing inrush current is about zero. Therefore, the primary current of unsaturated phase can be replaced by the opposite of the circulating current. Based on this, an engineering practical calculation method for circulating current is proposed. In the method, the segmented primary currents are used to replace the circulating current. Phasor analysis is used to demonstrate the application effect of this method when remanence coefficients are different. The method is simple and practical, and has strong applicability and high reliability. Simulation and recorded waveforms have verified the effectiveness of the method.

Utility computing is being gradually realized as exemplified by cloud computing. Outsourcing computing and storage to global-scale cloud providers benefits from high accessibility, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, users are uneasy outsourcing the storage of sensitive data due to security concerns. We address this problem by presenting SeMiNAS–-an efficient middleware system that allows files to be securely outsourced to providers and shared among geo-distributed offices. SeMiNAS achieves end-to-end data integrity and confidentiality with a highly efficient authenticated-encryption scheme. SeMiNAS leverages advanced NFSv4 features, including compound procedures and data-integrity extensions, to minimize extra network round trips caused by security meta-data. SeMiNAS also caches remote files locally to reduce accesses to providers over WANs. We designed, implemented, and evaluated SeMiNAS, which demonstrates a small performance penalty of less than 26% and an occasional performance boost of up to 19% for Filebench workloads.