Secure MISO wiretap channels with multiantenna passive eavesdropper: Artificial noise vs. artificial fast fading

Hui Ming Wang, Tongxing Zheng, Xiang Gen Xia

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Abstract

The artificial noise (AN) scheme is an efficient strategy for enhancing the secrecy rate of a multiple-input-single-output channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper, whose channel state information is unavailable. Recently, a randomized beamforming scheme has been proposed for deteriorating the eavesdropper's bit-error-rate performance via corrupting its receiving signal by time-varying multiplicative noise. However, the secrecy rate of such a scheme has not been well addressed yet. In this paper, we name it the artificial fast fading (AFF) scheme and provide a comprehensive secrecy rate analysis for it. We show that with this scheme, the eavesdropper will face a noncoherent Ricean fading single-input-multiple-output channel. Although the closed-form secrecy rate is difficult to obtain, we derive an exact expression for the single-antenna-eavesdropper case and a lower bound for the multiantenna-eavesdropper case, both of which can be numerically calculated conveniently. Furthermore, we compare the AFF scheme with the AN scheme and show that their respective superiorities to each other depend on the number of antennas that the transmitter and the eavesdropper possessed, i.e., when the eavesdropper has more antennas than the transmitter does, the AFF scheme achieves a larger secrecy rate; otherwise, the AN scheme outperforms. Motivated by this observation, we propose a hybrid AN-AFF scheme and investigate the power allocation problem, which achieves better secrecy performance further.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6841050
Pages (from-to)94-106
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Physical layer security
  • artificial fast fading
  • artificial noise
  • multipleinput-single-output
  • noncoherent
  • power allocation
  • secrecy rate

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