Physical Layer Authentication for Iot - Bordeaux, France - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

Description

Physical layer authentication for IoT:

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ABG-115752

• Sujet de Thèse 11/07/2023
• Contrat doctoral
• Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
• Lieu de travail
• Bordeaux
• Nouvelle Aquitaine
• France
• Intitulé du sujet
• Physical layer authentication for IoT
• Champs scientifiques
• Informatique
• Electronique
• Télécommunications

• Mots clés

• IoT, wireless, networks, security, embedded, radio, lora, lorawan, energy
  Description du sujet:

Position and International Context:

The French part of the Ph.
D. thesis will take place within the Progress research group of LaBRI at the University of Bordeaux, France.
The Belgian part of the Ph.
D. thesis will take place within the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) research group of KU Leuven, Belgium.

The research work will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Dave Singelée (KU Leuven) and Dr. Stéphane Delbruel (University of Bordeaux), in the context of a collaboration between the two universities.


Scientific Context:

Mass adoption, among others within critical use cases, led to a strong need to provide
security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In today's infrastructures, this
role tends to be handled by a core entity, using authentication and encryption

This approach inherited from decades of wired network infrastructures as the environment to secure, showed its limits and inadequacy when applied to WSNs.

Facing energy constraints, limited computing power and connectivity, it becomes of prime importance to investigate novel security mechanisms able to operate in a more pervasive fashion within the end-devices.

Physical (PHY) layer-based security is a novel and promising approach based on information-theoretic security, operating at the lowest level and providing secure mechanisms relying on physical phenomena of the radio link itself.

Such mechanisms for constrained environments hold the promises of overcoming the previously cited limitations while potentially offering substantial energy savings.

Leveraging this emerging field of PHY-based security, we propose to investigate a

novel network and system security paradigm, able to strengthen the authentication guarantees offered by any infrastructure operator while simplifying their implementation.

Nature du financement:

• Contrat doctoral

Précisions sur le financement:


Présentation établissement et labo d'accueil:

• Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

The University of Bordeaux welcomes 56,000 students and is ranked among the top French universities.

The city of Bordeaux is located at the very heart of Southern Europe, only one hour from the Atlantic Ocean and two hours from Paris by train, thus enjoying a mild oceanic climate and rich natural surroundings.

The KU Leuven welcomes 66,000 students and is ranked among the top universities in the world.

The city of Leuven is located in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium, only thirty minutes to Brussels, and less than two hours from the North sea by train, thus enjoying an oceanic climate and historical surroundings.

Applicants must have an MSc degree in either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent), be fluent in English, and demonstrate strong team-working abilities.