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Pilot Spoofing Attack

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Pilot contamination attack; Spoofing attack

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Pilot spoofing attack refers to an active attack in wireless networks, where active eavesdroppers (Eves) manipulate the channel estimation to increase the eavesdrop** rate. In time division duplex (TDD) systems with channel reciprocity, the downlink channel state information (CSI) can be acquired through uplink channel training. A smart active Eve may hack such channel estimation process by sending an identical pilot sequence to the base station (BS), causing an erroneous channel estimation at the BS and more information leak to the Eve.

Background

By exploiting the randomness of wireless medium, physical layer security can provide lightweight security solution for low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) devices and has been regarded as a promising solution to enhance security in emerging large-scale heterogeneous networks (HetNets) (Mukherjee 2015; Poor and Schaefer 2017). The information-theoretical security was...

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  1. ECE Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Wei Wang

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

  2. Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    **aodong Lin

  3. Dpt.of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha, NE, USA

    Kuan Zhang

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  1. Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, Shanghai, China

    Hao** Zhu

  2. Nan**g University of Information Science & Technology, China, Nan**g, China

    Jian Shen

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Wang, W. (2019). Pilot Spoofing Attack. In: Shen, X., Lin, X., Zhang, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_319-1

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