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Dhwani: secure peer-to-peer acoustic NFC

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Rajalakshmi Nandakumar,

Krishna Kant Chintalapudi,

Venkat Padmanabhan,

Ramarathnam VenkatesanAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCOMM '13: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM

Pages 63 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/2486001.2486037

Published: 27 August 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Near Field Communication (NFC) enables physically proximate devices to communicate over very short ranges in a peer-to-peer manner without incurring complex network configuration overheads. However, adoption of NFC-enabled applications has been stymied by the low levels of penetration of NFC hardware. In this paper, we address the challenge of enabling NFC-like capability on the existing base of mobile phones. To this end, we develop Dhwani, a novel, acoustics-based NFC system that uses the microphone and speakers on mobile phones, thus eliminating the need for any specialized NFC hardware. A key feature of Dhwani is the JamSecure technique, which uses self-jamming coupled with self-interference cancellation at the receiver, to provide an information-theoretically secure communication channel between the devices. Our current implementation of Dhwani achieves data rates of up to 2.4 Kbps, which is sufficient for most existing NFC applications.

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DOI:10.1145/2486001

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Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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