Physical layer characteristics of a wireless channel, which can be measured independently by the two communicating parties and yield near-identical results due to the channel reciprocity property, have been shown to be an important source of shared secrecy generation. Various types of channel state information (CSI), such as the received signal strength (RSS) and the channel impulse response (CIR) can be utilized for this purpose. Through periodic probing of the CSI, a continuous cycle of secret bit generation and key renewal can be maintained. However, many forms of wireless CSI inherently have substantial temporal correlation, which may hinder the secrecy generation process. Accordingly, various autocorrelation reduction (decorrelation) methods have been proposed, using either sub-sampling approaches that discard potentially valuable CSI data, or, computationally expensive transform domain approaches such as the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Karhunen-Loeve Transform (KLT), and principal component analysis (PCA) that may not be feasible or desirable for resource and energy constrained devices. This paper proposes a low-complexity method for reducing the autocorrelation of the CSI measurements through a reordering of the data based on integer sequences such as the Fibonacci sequences, and applies it to various types of CSI data that represent both the individual path level CIR and the aggregate level multipath gain or RSS. We evaluate the performance of the method in three standard multipath ITU channel models. Fibonacci sequences are observed to be an effective means of decorrelating the channel measurement data, thereby eliminating the need for computationally intensive methods.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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