IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Physical Layer Secrecy Performance of TAS Wiretap Channels with Correlated Main and Eavesdropper Channels
Nuwan S. Ferdinand, Daniel Benevides da Costa, André L. F. de Almeida, Matti Latva‐aho
Abstract
This letter investigates the secrecy performance of multiple-input single-output (MISO) wiretap channels when the eavesdropper channel is correlated with the main one. Assuming that the transmitter employs a transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme, we derive a tight closed-form expression for the secrecy outage probability and analytically evaluate the secrecy performance. An asymptotic outage expression is also derived, from which a diversity analysis is carried out. We prove that correlation between channels works in favor at medium to high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), however it degrades the performance at low SNR.