PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS: PUBLISHED RESULTS FROM THE SAFE-UCOMM PROJECT

Paolo Casari; Roee Diamant; Stefano Tomasin; Jeff Neasham; Lutz Lampe

PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS: PUBLISHED RESULTS FROM THE SAFE-UCOMM PROJECT

Paolo Casari, Roee Diamant, Stefano Tomasin, Jeff Neasham, Lutz Lampe

Department of Marine Technologies

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Abstract

The emergence of commercial underwater acoustic modems from different manufacturers and the promulgation of interoperability standards (e.g., JANUS) broadens the application scenarios of underwater acoustic telemetry and communications. At the same time, security concerns call for authentication and privacy-enforcing schemes. However, compute- or communication-intensive methods for terrestrial networks do not adapt well to bandwidth-constrained acoustic communications. In this context, we discuss the findings of the NATO SPS SAFE-UComm project, which involves research teams from Italy, Israel, Canada, and the UK. The project investigates and realizes practical security schemes that exploit the randomness of physical acoustic communication processes for security, and evaluates the potential of biomimicry and the capability of biomimetic signal detectors. After discussing the concept of SAFE-UComm, we survey its approaches to security through a number of results related to authentication, privacy, and biomimicry functions. Our results, based on several field experiments, show the feasibility of the project's design in relevant scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Publisher	European Acoustics Association, EAA
ISBN (Electronic)	9788888942674
State	Published - 2023
Event	10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023 - Torino, Italy Duration: 11 Sep 2023 → 15 Sep 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
ISSN (Print)	2221-3767

Conference

Conference	10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	11/09/23 → 15/09/23

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 P. Casari et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Keywords

Underwater acoustic communications
biomimicry
field experiments
physical-layer security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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Casari, P, Diamant, R, Tomasin, S, Neasham, J & Lampe, L 2023, PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS: PUBLISHED RESULTS FROM THE SAFE-UCOMM PROJECT. in Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, European Acoustics Association, EAA, 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023, Torino, Italy, 11/09/23.

PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS: PUBLISHED RESULTS FROM THE SAFE-UCOMM PROJECT. / Casari, Paolo; Diamant, Roee; Tomasin, Stefano et al.
Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023. European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023. (Proceedings of Forum Acusticum).

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