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arXiv:1608.05473 · IEEE Transactions on Communications

Secure Communication in Uplink Transmissions: User Selection and Multiuser Secrecy Gain

Hao Jiang Deng, Hui‐Ming Wang, Jinhong Yuan, Wenjie Wang, Qinye Yin

Published Jun 27, 2016• 17 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate secure communications uplink transmissions, where there are a base station (BS) with M receive antennas, K mobile users each with a single antenna, and an eavesdropper with N receive antennas. The closed-form expressions of the achievable ergodic secrecy sum rates (ESSRs) for a random k users selection scheme in the high and low signal-to-noise ratio regimes are presented. It is shown that the scaling behavior of ESSR with respect to the number served users k can be quite different under different system configurations, determined by the numbers of the BS antennas and that of the eavesdropper antennas. In order to achieve multiuser gain, two low-complexity user selection schemes are proposed under different assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel state information. The closed-form expressions of the achievable ESSRs and the multiuser secrecy gains of the two schemes are also presented in both low and high SNR regimes. observe that, as k increases, the multiuser secrecy gain increases, while the ESSR may decrease. Therefore, when N much larger than M, serving one user with the strongest channel (Time Division Multiple Address-like) is a favorable secrecy scheme, where the ESSR scales with √2 log K.

DOI
10.1109/tcomm.2016.2585128

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We derive the asymptotic ergodic secrecy sum rate (ESSR) of block diagonalization precoding for physical-layer security in downlink multi-user wireless networks that use artificial noise. First, we derive the ESSR of the system. Then, we derive the power allocation and the asymptotic ESSR as the number of antennas increases. After, we derive an approximate expression for the optimum ratio of the number of transmit antennas to the number of receive antennas (Ψ). We then introduce the user dropping factor (UDF) as a means to derive the optimum number of users in the system under different scenarios and then derive the asymptotic optimum UDF, which gives the optimum number of scheduled users. We also study the effect of imperfect channel state information and derive a closed-form ESSR. Simulation results show that these precoders outperform channel inversion (CI) and regularized CI schemes in terms of the ESSR at all SNRs. We also show that as the number of receive antennas of each user increases, the asymptotic ESSR gap also increases.
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