Probabilistic shaping based constellation encryption for physical layer security in OFDM RoF system

Abstract

The physical layer security of radio-over-fiber (RoF) system is a very important problem for future communication. In this paper, a novel probabilistic shaping (PS) based constellation encryption scheme is proposed in which two bit-level encryption operations are firstly performed according to chaotic sequences and hash values. The chaotic sequences are generated by hyperchaotic system and hash values are obtained by SHA-512. Then PS is applied to enhance transmission performance. After PS-16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), constellation encryption is implemented aiming at maintaining overall shaping distribution unchanged and improving security. An encrypted PS-16-QAM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal is successfully transmitted over 50 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) and 5 m wireless channel in our experiment. The results demonstrate that the key space of 10 121 is achieved to defend malicious attacks. Moreover, the proposed PS-based encryption scheme can obtain approximately 2.4 dB gain at a BER of 10 −3 compared with traditional OFDM signal. Thus, the proposed scheme has a good application prospect in the future OFDM-RoF system due to the dominant BER and security performance.