Existing solutions against wiretapping attacks for network coding either bring significant bandwidth overhead or incur a high computational complexity.In order to reduce the security overhead of the existing solutions...Existing solutions against wiretapping attacks for network coding either bring significant bandwidth overhead or incur a high computational complexity.In order to reduce the security overhead of the existing solutions for securing network coding,a novel securing network coding paradigm is presented relying on two coding models:intra-generation coding and inter-generation coding.The basic idea to secure network coding using intra-generation coding is to limit the encryption operations for each generation,and then subject the scrambled and the remaining original source vectors to a linear transformation.This method is then generalized seamlessly using inter-generation coding by further exploiting the algebraic structure of network coding.We show that the proposed schemes have properties of low-complexity security,little bandwidth consumption,and high efficiency in integrating with the existing security techniques effectively.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11371290,No.61271174,No. 61301178)the Science and Technology Innovation Foundation of Xi'an(Grant No. CXY1352WL28)
文摘Existing solutions against wiretapping attacks for network coding either bring significant bandwidth overhead or incur a high computational complexity.In order to reduce the security overhead of the existing solutions for securing network coding,a novel securing network coding paradigm is presented relying on two coding models:intra-generation coding and inter-generation coding.The basic idea to secure network coding using intra-generation coding is to limit the encryption operations for each generation,and then subject the scrambled and the remaining original source vectors to a linear transformation.This method is then generalized seamlessly using inter-generation coding by further exploiting the algebraic structure of network coding.We show that the proposed schemes have properties of low-complexity security,little bandwidth consumption,and high efficiency in integrating with the existing security techniques effectively.