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arXiv:2002.05206 · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

On The Secrecy Performance Over N-Wave With Diffuse Power Fading Channel

José David Vega Sánchez, Diana Pamela Moya Osorio, F. Javier López‐Martínez, Martha Cecilia Paredes Paredes, Luis Felipe Urquiza-Aguiar

Published Nov 3, 2020• 4 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the realistic propagation conditions effects on wireless physical layer security, which are different from classical Rice and Rayleigh fading. Specifically, we study how the superposition of a number of dominant specular waves and diffusely propagating components impacts the achievable secrecy performance. We derive analytical expressions for the secrecy outage probability and the average secrecy capacity, which have similar complexity to other alternatives in the literature derived for simpler fading models. We provide very useful insights on the impact on physical layer security of (i) the number; (ii) the relative amplitudes and (iii) the overall power of the dominant specular components. We show that it is possible to obtain remarkable improvements on the system secrecy performance when: (a) the relative amplitudes of the dominant specular components for the legitimate channel are more unbalanced compared to those of the eavesdropper's channel, and (b) the power of the dominant components for the main channel is significantly larger than the power of the dominant components for the wiretap channel.

DOI
10.1109/tvt.2020.3035544

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This paper investigates the impact on the achievable secrecy performance of multiple-input multiple-output systems by dealing with realistic propagation conditions. Specifically, we focus on the κ\kappaκ-μ\muμ shadowing fading model, which has proven to be more accurate in characterizing mm-wave scenarios than traditional Rice and Rayleigh ones. By considering transmit antenna selection and maximal ratio combining at the receiver ends, we study two different scenarios, namely: (i) the transmitter has knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper link, and (ii) the transmitter does not know eavesdropper's CSI. Based on these assumptions, we derive novel analytical expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and the average secrecy capacity (ASC) to assess the secrecy performance in passive and active eavesdropping scenarios, respectively. Moreover, we develop analytical asymptotic expressions of the SOP and ASC at high signal-to-noise ratio regime. Some useful insights on how to obtain noticeable improvements in the secrecy performance are also provided.
We show that for a legitimate communication under multipath quasi-static fading with a reduced number of scatterers, it is possible to achieve perfect secrecy even in the presence of a passive eavesdropper for which no channel state information (CSI) is available. Specifically, we show that the outage probability of secrecy capacity (OPSC) is zero for a given range of average signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) at the legitimate and eavesdropper's receivers. As an application example, we analyze the OPSC for the case of two scatterers, explicitly deriving the relationship between the average SNRs, the secrecy rate RSand the fading model parameters required for achieving perfect secrecy. The impact of increasing the number of scatterers is also analyzed, showing that it is always possible to achieve perfect secrecy in this scenario, provided that (i) the dominant specular component for the legitimate channel is sufficiently large compared to the remaining scattered waves, and (ii) a exclusion area on which no eavesdroppers can be placed is considered.
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The performance of physical-layer security of the classic Wyner's wiretap model over Fisher-Snedecor F composite fading channels is considered in this work. Specifically, the main channel (i.e., between the source and the legitimate destination) and the eavesdropper's channel (i.e., between the source and the illegitimate destination) are assumed to experience independent quasi-static Fisher-Snedecor F fading conditions, which have been shown to be encountered in realistic wireless transmission scenarios in conventional and emerging communication systems. In this context, exact closed-form expressions for the average secrecy capacity (ASC) and the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity (PNSC) are derived. Additionally, an asymptotic analytical expression for the ASC is presented. The impact of shadowing and multipath fading on the secrecy performance is investigated. Our results show that increasing the fading parameter of the main channel and/or the shadowing parameter of the eavesdropper's channel improves the secrecy performance. The analytical results are compared with Monte-Carlo simulations to validate the analysis.