Secure Distance Bounding Protocol on TH-UWB

Due to the nature of the shared radio channel, wireless communication suffers from different available attacks. To remind against these attacks, distance bounding protocols are the most popular counter measures. In this paper, we proposed a novel protocol based on distance bounding to thread the most popular attacks: Distance Fraud, Mafia Fraud and Terrorist fraud. In our work, we study the way to adapt the secure distance bounding protocols to time-hopping ultra-wideband (TH-UWB) radios. To ameliorate the performances of the proposed protocol in terms of communication security in ultra-wideband (TH-UWB) radios, we combine the modified protocol to ultra-wideband impulse radio technology (IR-UWB). The security and the different merits of the proposed protocols are analyzed.