TY - GEN
T1 - PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS
T2 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
AU - Casari, Paolo
AU - Diamant, Roee
AU - Tomasin, Stefano
AU - Neasham, Jeff
AU - Lampe, Lutz
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 P. Casari et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The emergence of commercial underwater acoustic modems from different manufacturers and the promulgation of interoperability standards (e.g., JANUS) broadens the application scenarios of underwater acoustic telemetry and communications. At the same time, security concerns call for authentication and privacy-enforcing schemes. However, compute- or communication-intensive methods for terrestrial networks do not adapt well to bandwidth-constrained acoustic communications. In this context, we discuss the findings of the NATO SPS SAFE-UComm project, which involves research teams from Italy, Israel, Canada, and the UK. The project investigates and realizes practical security schemes that exploit the randomness of physical acoustic communication processes for security, and evaluates the potential of biomimicry and the capability of biomimetic signal detectors. After discussing the concept of SAFE-UComm, we survey its approaches to security through a number of results related to authentication, privacy, and biomimicry functions. Our results, based on several field experiments, show the feasibility of the project's design in relevant scenarios.
AB - The emergence of commercial underwater acoustic modems from different manufacturers and the promulgation of interoperability standards (e.g., JANUS) broadens the application scenarios of underwater acoustic telemetry and communications. At the same time, security concerns call for authentication and privacy-enforcing schemes. However, compute- or communication-intensive methods for terrestrial networks do not adapt well to bandwidth-constrained acoustic communications. In this context, we discuss the findings of the NATO SPS SAFE-UComm project, which involves research teams from Italy, Israel, Canada, and the UK. The project investigates and realizes practical security schemes that exploit the randomness of physical acoustic communication processes for security, and evaluates the potential of biomimicry and the capability of biomimetic signal detectors. After discussing the concept of SAFE-UComm, we survey its approaches to security through a number of results related to authentication, privacy, and biomimicry functions. Our results, based on several field experiments, show the feasibility of the project's design in relevant scenarios.
KW - Underwater acoustic communications
KW - biomimicry
KW - field experiments
KW - physical-layer security
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85191231889
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
BT - Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
PB - European Acoustics Association, EAA
Y2 - 11 September 2023 through 15 September 2023
ER -