Patent for Protecting Private Data on 5G Networks
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, Associate Research Professor Salvatore D’Oro, and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia were awarded a patent for “Private 5G cellular connectivity as a service through full-stack wireless steganography.”
Abstract Source: USPTO
A steganographic communication system and method are provided. A covert packet generator can embed a stream of covert data as covert data symbols within primary I/Q symbols of a primary data stream in a covert packet. The covert packet has a data structure having a header, a payload, and a payload error detecting code. The header includes information on how to demodulate the covert packet by a receiver. The covert packet generator can also determine if a number of primary I/Q symbols is large enough to generate the header and can generate displacements in the primary I/Q symbols in a constellation diagram randomly in a plurality of transmissions to mimic channel noise. A transmitter and receiver can provide mutual authentication for covert transmissions.
