Ultra-Fast Bit-Level Frequency-Hopping Transmitter for Securing Low-Power Wireless Devices
| Title | Ultra-Fast Bit-Level Frequency-Hopping Transmitter for Securing Low-Power Wireless Devices |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Yazicigil, R. T., Nadeau, P., Richman, D., Juvekar, C., Vaidya, K., Chandrakasan, A. P. |
| Conference Name | 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-5386-4545-1 |
| Keywords | BLE transmitters, Bluetooth, bulk acoustic wave devices, bulk acoustic wave resonators, Bulk-acoustic wave resonators, CMOS integrated circuits, cryptography, data-driven random dynamic channel selection, frequency 2.4 GHz, frequency 80.0 MHz, frequency hop communication, frequency hopping, frequency shift keying, Harmonic analysis, jamming, low-power wireless devices, Metrics, physical-layer security, power 10.9 mW, pubcrawl, radio transmitters, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, secure wireless communications, security, selective jamming, size 65.0 nm, telecommunication security, time 1.0 mus, Time Frequency Analysis, time-interleaved BAW-based TX, ultra-fast bit-level frequency-hopping scheme, ultra-fast bit-level frequency-hopping transmitter, voltage 1.1 V |
| Abstract | Current BLE transmitters are susceptible to selective jamming due to long dwell times in a channel. To mitigate these attacks, we propose physical-layer security through an ultra-fast bit-level frequency-hopping (FH) scheme by exploiting the frequency agility of bulk acoustic wave resonators (BAW). Here we demonstrate the first integrated bit-level FH transmitter (TX) that hops at 1$m$s period and uses data-driven random dynamic channel selection to enable secure wireless communications with additional data encryption. This system consists of a time-interleaved BAW-based TX implemented in 65nm CMOS technology with 80MHz coverage in the 2.4GHz ISM band and a measured power consumption of 10.9mW from 1.1V supply. |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8428994 |
| DOI | 10.1109/RFIC.2018.8428994 |
| Citation Key | yazicigil_ultra-fast_2018 |
- selective jamming
- power 10.9 mW
- pubcrawl
- radio transmitters
- resilience
- Resiliency
- Scalability
- secure wireless communications
- security
- physical-layer security
- size 65.0 nm
- telecommunication security
- time 1.0 mus
- Time Frequency Analysis
- time-interleaved BAW-based TX
- ultra-fast bit-level frequency-hopping scheme
- ultra-fast bit-level frequency-hopping transmitter
- voltage 1.1 V
- frequency 80.0 MHz
- Bluetooth
- bulk acoustic wave devices
- bulk acoustic wave resonators
- Bulk-acoustic wave resonators
- CMOS integrated circuits
- Cryptography
- data-driven random dynamic channel selection
- frequency 2.4 GHz
- BLE transmitters
- frequency hop communication
- frequency hopping
- frequency shift keying
- Harmonic analysis
- Jamming
- low-power wireless devices
- Metrics