International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC)
Power allocation for secrecy diversity in MISOME wiretap channels
Thang Van Nguyen, Youngmin Jeong, Hyundong Shin
Abstract
We consider secure beamforming with artificial noise in a multiple-input single-output multiple-eavesdropper (MISOME) wiretap channel, where a transmitter has access to full channel state information (CSI) of a legitimate channel but only partial CSI of eavesdropper channels. In this paper, we first put forth a notion of symbol error probability (SEP) for confidential information—called the δ-secrecy SEP—to connect the reliability and confidentiality of the legitimate communication in MISOME wiretap channels. For single-antenna colluding and non-colluding eavesdroppers, we determine the optimal power allocation between the information-bearing signal and artificial noise to minimize the δ-secrecy SEP in the presence of weak or strong eavesdroppers, and further develop the switched power allocation for general eavesdropping attacks.