Title: Reliable and secure communication using fundamental cut-sets and fundamental circuits

Authors: C. Pavan Kumar; R. Selvakumar; Raghunadh K. Bhattar

Addresses: School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCOPE), VIT University, Vellore, India ' School of Advanced Sciences (SAS), VIT University, Vellore, India ' Space Applications Center (SAC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India

Abstract: Ensuring reliability and security has been a challenge in modern communication systems. To achieve these challenges, a novel reliable and secure communication system is designed in this paper. Reliability is achieved by constructing a class of error correcting codes called concatenated kernel codes. Security in terms of source authentication is achieved from using graph nature of trellis employing techniques from graph theory namely fundamental cut-set and fundamental circuit. It has been shown that the proposed communication framework achieves the goal of reliability and security considering the channel noise and cryptanalytic attacks. The theoretical basis of the proposed framework is validated and its performance is evaluated through simulations.

Keywords: reliability; security; error correcting codes; trellis; fundamental cut-sets; fundamental circuits.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2018.089590

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2018 Vol.10 No.1, pp.41 - 62

Received: 04 Jul 2016
Accepted: 09 Dec 2016
Published online: 31 Jan 2018 *

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