Identification Messaging Over Compound Channels for Secure Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing message transmission methods lack robustness and security, particularly in environments with channel uncertainty and eavesdropping, limiting their ability to efficiently identify and protect messages.

Innovation Solution

The method employs a stochastic encoder to generate compound codes for message identification and wiretap codes, utilizing a compound channel to randomly select codes and ensure secrecy, with channel security parameters monitoring and adjusting transmission processes to maintain secure communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional message transmission methods are used, then implementation is simple, but robustness and security against eavesdropping are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The message transmission system is segmented into multiple registered transmitting sites and receiving sites, each with unique identification capabilities. The compound channel is divided into multiple individual channels, and codebooks are segmented into code subbooks for different sites. This segmentation enables secure identification-based communication while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from traditional Shannon communication (transmitting messages as such) to identification-based communication (transmitting codes representing messages). This dimensional change in the communication paradigm enables exponential increase in channel capacity while providing inherent security through the identification mechanism, where receivers verify whether a transmitted code corresponds to a selected message without directly observing the message itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Productivity

If channel capacity is increased through identification methods, then transmission efficiency improves exponentially, but robustness against channel uncertainty and eavesdropping deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel capacityVSAvoidrobustness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs dynamic code selection through stochastic encoders that randomly select codes from code subbooks based on channel conditions. The system adaptively adjusts transmission strategies by monitoring channel quality and security parameters, dynamically switching between different codebooks and transmission modes to maintain both high channel capacity utilization and robustness against uncertainty and eavesdropping.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters such as codebook selection, code selection probability distributions, and transmission timing based on monitored channel security parameters. By dynamically adjusting these parameters in response to channel conditions, the system maintains exponential channel capacity while adapting to maintain robustness against varying levels of uncertainty and potential eavesdropping threats.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If stochastic encoders are used for message identification, then security and secrecy are enhanced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecrecyVSAvoidencoder complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses codebooks and code subbooks as copies or representations of the actual messages. Instead of directly transmitting complex encrypted messages, the system transmits simpler codes from pre-prepared codebooks that represent the messages. This copying approach enhances security through the identification paradigm while reducing the computational complexity of the encoders compared to traditional encryption methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

Codebooks and code subbooks are prepared in advance for each registered transmitting and receiving site. This preliminary action of pre-generating and distributing codebooks enables the stochastic encoders to simply select from pre-computed options rather than performing complex real-time encryption, thereby enhancing secrecy through diverse code selection while keeping encoder complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Reliability

If channel security parameters are monitored and transmission is adjusted, then security is maintained, but transmission time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecure transmissionVSAvoidtransmission delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where channel security parameters are monitored and used to adjust transmission decisions. However, the feedback is designed to be efficient by using pre-prepared codebooks and simple selection rules based on monitored parameters, minimizing the time overhead. The feedback loop triggers transmission suppression or postponement only when security parameters indicate compromised channels, avoiding unnecessary delays in normal conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3937117B1Method and system for transmitting and/or receiving messages via identification
Publication Date: 2024.05.22 TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN
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AI summary

The present invention refers to a method (S) of and to a system (T) for transmitting and/or receiving messages in an environment of registered transmitting sites (TX) and receiving sites (RX) via identification, wherein a respective message is selected from a fixed set of messages - which is in particular finite or countable - and sent and/or received over a compound channel (CC) via identification. In addition, the compound channel (CC) as a set of channels and ruled by a state variable (t) is given and used based on a compound code by using a stochastic encoder.