Optical Satellite Eavesdropping

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Ben Yahia O., ERDOĞAN E., Kurt G. K., Altunbaş İ., Yanikomeroglu H.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, cilt.71, sa.9, ss.10126-10131, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 71 Sayı: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/tvt.2022.3176119
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, Aerospace Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, Environment Index, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.10126-10131
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Eavesdropping, Satellites, Space vehicles, Laser beams, Low earth orbit satellites, Fading channels, Optical receivers, Free-space optical, high altitude platform station, physical layer security, satellite eavesdropping, HIGH-ALTITUDE PLATFORMS, PERFORMANCE, NETWORKS, COMMUNICATION, TURBULENCE
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In recent years, satellite communication (SatCom) systems have been widely used for navigation, broadcasting application, disaster recovery, weather sensing, and even spying on the Earth. As the number of satellites is highly increasing and with the radical revolution in wireless technology, eavesdropping on SatCom will be possible in next-generation networks. In this context, we introduce the satellite eavesdropping approach, where an eavesdropping spacecraft can intercept optical communications established between a low Earth orbit satellite and a high altitude platform station (HAPS). Specifically, we propose two practical eavesdropping scenarios for satellite-to-HAPS (downlink) and HAPS-to-satellite (uplink) optical communications, where the attacker spacecraft can eavesdrop on the transmitted signal or the received signal. To quantify the secrecy performance of the scenarios, the average secrecy capacity and secrecy outage probability expressions are derived and validated with Monte Carlo simulations. Moreover, the secrecy throughput of the proposed models is investigated. We observe that turbulence-induced fading significantly impacts the secrecy performance of free-space optical communication.