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Information steganography using backscatter radio

Topalis Athanasios

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/AADE59F3-E9D7-4099-9A99-B22E38401A27
Year 2019
Type of Item Diploma Work
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Bibliographic Citation Athanasios Topalis, "Information steganography using backscatter radio", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2019 https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.83071
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Recent advances in ambient, FM backscatter radio showed the feasibility ofpiggybacking an audio signal on top of a broadcast FM radio transmission.In conjunction with the weak transmission power inherent in backscatter ra-dio systems, this work exploits FM ambient backscatter to achieve covertcommunication. Information in the form of plain text is converted to a wide-band audio signal using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) modula-tion, resulting in a noise-like audio signal undergoing Frequency Modulation(FM) before being backscattered to a conventional smart phone equippedwith FM radio, acting as the receiver. A Linear Feedback Shift Register(LFSR), provided with a key completely determining its output, generatesthe symbol sequences that serve as spreading sequences in DSSS, thus addinga Private-Key Encryption layer to enhance the cryptosystem's robustness. ARepetition Code is utilized as a way of error correction to increase the per-formance. Besides simulations, a prototype was implemented to verify thefeasibility of the proposed concept.

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