Constellation Shaping Chaotic Encryption Scheme With Controllable Statistical Distribution for OFDM-PON

In order to improve the signal transmission performance and physical layer security in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based passive optical network (OFDM-PON), we propose a constellation shaping chaotic encryption (CSCEn) scheme with controllable statistical distribution. In this scheme, a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbol sequence is divided into several sub-sequences, and a further probabilistic shaping (PS) is performed by constellation region replacement in terms of the corresponding statistical information (SI). Then the sequence SI is encoded and encrypted into chaotic signal phases by employing our key distribution algorithm. At the receiver, the SI is extracted first to restore the original signal. To verify the effectiveness of this scheme, we successfully demonstrate an encrypted PS-16-QAM signal transmission over a 25-km standard single mode fiber (SSMF). The results show that the proposed scheme can flexibly improve bit error rate (BER) performance with low deployment complexity and provide sufficient security to resist attacks from illegal optical network units (ONUs), thus it displays a promising application prospect for future secure PON.

I. Introduction

Today, as the backbone network transmission technology has repeatedly made breakthroughs, the research on broadband access networks (BAN) has attracted more intense attention, where passive optical network (PON) is widely considered as a hopeful and effective solution for future fiber access due to its superiority of high bandwidth and low cost over other access techniques. In order to cope with the pivotal demand for the next generation PON (NG-PON) like enormous capacity, larger power loss budget, better network privacy as well as compatibility, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based passive optical network (OFDM-PON) is treated as a hot topic. Owing to the special PON topology, there is a risk of suffering diverse attack methods in the downstream channel broadcast communication. Therefore, many encryption schemes have been proposed for sake of OFDM-PON security enhancement.