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A Noisy Channel Tolerant Image Encryption Scheme

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In this paper, we present an image encryption scheme that has the capability to tolerate noisy effects of a wireless channel. This means if the encrypted image data is corrupted by channel noise up to a certain level, correct decryption is possible with some distortion. The proposed image encryption scheme relies on some very interesting properties of orthogonal matrices containing columns that form a set of orthonormal basis vectors. Besides being tolerant to noisy channels, the proposed scheme also provides good security against well-known cryptographic attacks as demonstrated in this paper by a number of experimental results and security analysis.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, HITEC University, Taxila-Cantt, Pakistan

    Fawad Ahmed & Amir Anees

  2. Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan

    Vali Uddin Abbas

  3. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    M. Y. Siyal

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Ahmed, F., Anees, A., Abbas, V.U. et al. A Noisy Channel Tolerant Image Encryption Scheme. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 2771–2791 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1667-5

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