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Enhancing physical layer security via information hiding and chaotic frequency-hop** signal

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With the development of super computation ability and invention of quantum computer, safeguarding network layer data confidentiality by computation based encryption method suffers great impact. As a result, people pay more attention to safeguarding data confidentiality in physical layer of wireless satellite communication system. In this paper, a groundbreaking method for enhancing physical layer security (PLS) by information hiding technology is proposed, that is, embedding secret information into chaotic frequency-hop** signal by multilevel frequency shift keying (MFSK) modulation. First, the secret information to be transmitted is encrypted with chaotic binary sequence. Secondly, according to frequency-hop** pattern and chaotic address sequence, select suitable modulation order and specific frequency point corresponding to each encrypted data block. Finally, the encrypted information is embedded into frequency-hop** Sine signal by MFSK modulation. Experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme is robust against various jamming attacks, such as power attenuation, noise adding, single-tone jamming, key exhaustive search, etc.

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The author would like to express his gratitude to all reviewers who helped him during the writing of this paper, and especial thanks to **Tian312 who shared the knowledge of random number performance test on the website of blog.csdn.net.

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Fan, M. Enhancing physical layer security via information hiding and chaotic frequency-hop** signal. Telecommun Syst (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-024-01146-1

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