Carrier and subcarrier hopping for optical OFDM security

摘要

Methods and systems for secure communication include assigning data streams to respective orthogonal sub-carriers according to random number information at a transmitter. The data streams are modulated onto the respective orthogonal sub-carriers before the orthogonal sub-carriers are transmitted. The random number information is transmitted on a second medium, separate from the transmission medium. The orthogonal sub-carriers are received from the transmission medium at a receiver, while the random number information is received from the second medium at the receiver. The orthogonal sub-carriers are associated with data streams using the random number information and demodulated to produce data for the associated data stream.