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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2018
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Shalabh Jain, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Qian Wang, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Md Tanvir Arafin, College Park, MD (US);
Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating at least one node connected to a shared communication medium reduces or eliminates the ability of an adversary node to identify the at least one node based on transient signal characteristics of a signal that the at least one node generates when transmitting a bit through the shared communication medium. The method includes adjusting, with a controller in a first node, an impedance of a variable impedance circuit in the first node to a first impedance level that the controller determines randomly, the variable impedance circuit in the first node being connected to an output of a transceiver in the first node and to a shared communication medium, and transmitting, with the transceiver, a first data bit through the shared communication medium with the variable impedance circuit producing the first impedance level.