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IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Secrecy Capacity Over Log-normal Fading Channel with Diversity Combining Techniques

Md. Zahurul I. Sarkar, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Published Apr 1, 2013• 62 citations
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Abstract

We consider a confidential communication through log-normal fading channel in which a single antenna transmitter communicates with a legitimate receiver in the presence of an eavesdropper. Employing maximal ratio combining (MRC) and equal gain combining (EGC) reception schemes at the legitimate receiver and eavesdropper, we find the closed-form expressions for the secrecy parameters, namely, the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity and the asymptotic secrecy capacity in terms of channel parameters such as correlation coefficient and the diversity order. We quantify the effect of diversity and antenna correlation and investigate, how the logarithmic standard deviation influences these effects of diversity and antenna correlation on the secrecy parameters. Moreover, as a result of obtaining closed-form expressions for the secrecy parameters, it is insightful to see how the channel parameters affect the security of lognormal fading channels.

DOI
10.1109/wcnc.2013.6554946

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Physical Layer Security of MRC in Fisher–Snedecor FFF Fading Channels
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This paper advocates physical layer security of maximal ratio combining (MRC) in wiretap two-wave with diffuse power fading channels. In such a wiretap channel, we consider that confidential messages transmitted from a single antenna transmitter to an M-antenna receiver are overheard by an N-antenna eavesdropper. The receiver adopts MRC to maximize the probability of secure transmission, whereas the eavesdropper adopts MRC to maximize the probability of successful eavesdropping. We derive the secrecy performance for two practical scenarios: 1) the eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter and 2) the eavesdropper's CSI is not available at the transmitter. For the first scenario, we develop a new analytical framework to characterize the average secrecy capacity as the principal security performance metric. Specifically, we derive new closed-form expressions for the exact and asymptotic average secrecy capacity. Based on these, we determine the high signal-to-noise ratio power offset to explicitly quantify the impacts of the main channel and the eavesdropper's channel on the average secrecy capacity. For the second scenario, the secrecy outage probability is the primary security performance metric. Here, we derive new closed-form expressions for the exact and asymptotic secrecy outage probability. We also derive the probability of nonzero secrecy capacity. The asymptotic secrecy outage probability explicitly indicates that the positive impact of M is reflected in the secrecy diversity order and the negative impact of N is reflected in the secrecy array gain. Motivated by this, we examine the performance gap between N and N+1 antennas based on their respective secrecy array gains.