APLOE

The APLOE research project aims at enabling wireless systems design accommodating the requirements of fourth generation (4G) wireless products, in two aspects. Firstly, because it proposes a practical approach to achieve perfect secrecy (unconditional security) in OFDM systems. Secondly, because it complies with the requirement of preserving the system's bandwidth efficiency - avoiding overheads that reduce throughput. The importance of both aspects is evident from the fact that the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)) has set up study groups relevant to the aforementioned issues; Study Group 17 looking at "Security" and Study Group 13 looking at "Future Networks". Correspondingly, all the major telecommunications companies have invested - and continue to invest - heavily on Long Term Evolution (LTE) products, a potential immediate application of the present project. It is worth noting that a number of important standardization issues for LTE - security amongst them - remain..

Primary location: Princeton United States