Highly secure non-orthogonal multiple access based on key accompanying transmission in training sequence

Abstract

This paper proposes a high-security chaotic encrypted power sparse coding division (CE-PSCD) scheme for 7-core fiber based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology. The method utilizes power multiplexing to realize parallel transmission of two signals. Joint encryption of the four-dimensional region is realized using constellation mapping encryption, carrier frequency encryption, symbol scrambling, and sparse code scrambling. What we believe to be a new dimension for encryption of autonomously designed sparse codes is proposed. Meanwhile, we hide the chaotic key in training sequence (TS) to realize the co-transmission of the key and the message. A 70 Gb/s CE-PSCD signal transmission over 2 km of 7-core fiber is demonstrated experimentally. At the limit of forward error correction (FEC) ∼3.8 × 10−3, the difference in the encrypted sensitivity among different users at the equal power level is 0.36 dB, which means that the fairness of users will not be destroyed. The key space can reach 10134, with a bit error rate (BER) of about 0.5 for brute-force cracking at illegal receivers. As long as the key bits in the hidden TS are wrong by one bit, the BER stays around 0.5. The results show no significant attenuation of the signal before and after encryption at either high or low power, verifying the high-security performance of our proposed scheme.