{"66200":{"#nid":"66200","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bloch, McLaughlin Win IEEE ComSoc \u0026 Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthieu Bloch and Steven W. McLaughlin have been named the recipients of the IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award for their paper, \u0022Wireless Information-Theoretic Security,\u0022 which was published in the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Information Theory\u003C\/em\u003E in June 2008. Dr. Bloch is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine, while Dr. McLaughlin is based at the Atlanta campus and serves as the Ken Byers Professor in ECE and the vice provost for International Initiatives for Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ComSoc \u0026amp; Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award is one of two paper awards that recognizes outstanding papers published in any publication of the Communications Society or the Information Theory Society within the previous three calendar years. Drs. McLaughlin and Bloch share this award with their paper coauthors, Jo\u00e3o Barros and Miguel Rodrigues from the University of Porto (Portugal).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the widespread deployment of wireless networks, mobile devices have become ubiquitous and are trusted to securely convey sensitive information such as bank records or medical files. However, by nature, wireless signals are broadcasted over the air, which makes eavesdropping particularly easy, even with off-the-shelf devices. In this paper, the authors propose to secure wireless communications by harnessing the imperfections of the wireless physical-layer, such as the gain fluctuations induced by changes in the environment, and they developed and analyzed algorithms to extract unbreakable secret keys between two wireless terminals. This research could be used to add a layer of security to many existing systems, such as WiFi networks, wireless sensor networks, or near-field-communication protocols.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE faculty members Matthieu Bloch and Steven McLaughlin win the IEEE Communications Society \u0026amp; Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE faculty members Matthieu Bloch and Steven McLaughlin win the IEEE Communications Society \u0026 Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2011-05-16 11:01:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:45","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66201":{"id":"66201","type":"image","title":"Steven McLaughlin, Matthieu Bloch, Demijan Klinc","body":null,"created":"1449176931","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:51","changed":"1475894587","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:07","alt":"Steven McLaughlin, Matthieu Bloch, Demijan Klinc","file":{"fid":"192496","name":"steve_and_matthieu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_and_matthieu_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_and_matthieu_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1748717,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/steve_and_matthieu_0.jpg?itok=-PDRm6Sq"}}},"media_ids":["66201"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=162","title":"Matthieu Bloch"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=68","title":"Steven W. McLaughlin"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/ieee.org\/","title":"IEEE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13161","name":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine"},{"id":"13162","name":"IEEE Communications Society"},{"id":"13163","name":"IEEE Information Society"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}