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On User Selective Eavesdropping Attacks in MU-MIMO: CSI Forgery and Countermeasure | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

On User Selective Eavesdropping Attacks in MU-MIMO: CSI Forgery and Countermeasure


Abstract:

Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) empowers access points (APs) with multiple antennas to transmit multiple data streams concurrently to users by exploiting spatial multiplexing. I...Show More

Abstract:

Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) empowers access points (APs) with multiple antennas to transmit multiple data streams concurrently to users by exploiting spatial multiplexing. In MU-MIMO, users need to estimate channel state information (CSI) and report it to APs, thus opening a backdoor to attackers who may forge CSI to eavesdrop the content of victims. In this paper, we explore the eavesdropping attack in a novel and practical context in which CSI forgery entangles MU-MIMO user selection in a many-users regime. The attacker hopes to optimize both the eavesdropping opportunity of being selected with the victim and the corresponding decoding quality. We propose new attack and defense mechanisms: (1) USE Attack that enables attackers to achieve near optimal eavesdropping opportunity and high decoding quality through constructing orthogonal CSI against victims followed by stepwise refinements; (2) AngleSec that exploits channel reciprocity for attacker detection without any modification to legacy CSI feedback in which CSI forgery induces a mismatching of downlink and uplink angular spectra at the AP. We implement and evaluate USE Attack and AngleSec in a software defined radio platform WARPv3. Extensive experiments manifest that USE Attack significantly improves the overall eaves-dropping quality compared with state-of-the-art counterparts and AngleSec is able to detect CSI forgery attackers almost for sure.
Date of Conference: 29 April 2019 - 02 May 2019
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 17 June 2019
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Conference Location: Paris, France

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