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IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Information secrecy from multiple eavesdroppers in orthogonal relay channels

Vaneet Aggarwal, Lalitha Sankar, A.R. Calderbank, H. Vincent Poor

Published Jun 1, 2009• 6 citations
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Abstract

The secrecy capacity of relay channels with orthogonal components is studied in the presence of additional passive eavesdropper nodes. The relay and destination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels such that the destination also receives transmissions from the relay on its channel. The eavesdropper(s) can overhear either one or both of the orthogonal channels. For a single eavesdropper node, the secrecy capacity is shown to be achieved by apartial decode-and-forward(PDF) scheme when the eavesdropper can overhear only one of the two orthogonal channels. For the case of two eavesdropper nodes, secrecy capacity is shown to be achieved by PDF for a sub-class of channels.

DOI
10.1109/isit.2009.5205963

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The secrecy capacity of relay channels with orthogonal components is studied in the presence of additional passive eavesdropper nodes. The relay and destination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels such that the destination also receives transmissions from the relay on its channel. The eavesdropper(s) can overhear either one or both of the orthogonal channels. For a single eavesdropper node, the secrecy capacity is shown to be achieved by apartial decode-and-forward(PDF) scheme when the eavesdropper can overhear only one of the two orthogonal channels. For the case of two eavesdropper nodes, secrecy capacity is shown to be achieved by PDF for a sub-class of channels.
The secrecy capacity of relay channels with orthogonal components is studied in the presence of an additional passive eavesdropper node. The relay and destination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels such that the destination also receives transmissions from the relay on its channel. The eavesdropper can overhear either one or both of the orthogonal channels. Inner and outer bounds on the secrecy capacity are developed for both the discrete memoryless and the Gaussian channel models. For the discrete memoryless case, the secrecy capacity is shown to be achieved by a partial decode-and-forward (PDF) scheme when the eavesdropper can overhear only one of the two orthogonal channels. Two new outer bounds are presented for the Gaussian model using recent capacity results for a Gaussian multiantenna point-to-point channel with a multiantenna eavesdropper. The outer bounds are shown to be tight for two subclasses of channels. The first subclass is one in which the source and relay are clustered, and the eavesdropper receives signals only on the channel from the source and the relay to the destination, for which the PDF strategy is optimal. The second is a subclass in which the source does not transmit to the relay, for which a noise-forwarding strategy is optimal.
The secrecy capacity is developed for a class of relay channels with orthogonal components and a passive eavesdropper node. The relay and destination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels such that the destination also receives transmissions from the relay on its channel. The eavesdropper can overhear either one or both of the orthogonal channels. Inner and outer bounds on the secrecy capacity are developed for both the discrete memoryless and the Gaussian channel models. For the discrete memoryless case, the secrecy capacity is shown to be achieved by a partial decode-and-forward (PDF) scheme when the eavesdropper can overhear only one of the two orthogonal channels. Two new outer bounds are presented for the Gaussian model using recent capacity results for a Gaussian multi-antenna channel with a multi-antenna eavesdropper. The outer bounds are shown to be tight for two sub-classes of channels. The first sub-class is one in which the source and relay are clustered and the eavesdropper overhears on only one of the two channels for which the PDF strategy is optimal. The second is a sub-class in which the source does not transmit to the relay for which a noise-forwarding strategy is optimal.
We consider the communication scenario where a source-destination pair wishes to keep the information secret from a relay node despite wanting to enlist its help. A class of relay channels with orthogonal components is considered and an upper bound on the secrecy rate is derived. For the class of relay channels in consideration, we prove the relay and the eavesdropper can be separated to obtain an ‘enhanced’ channel in terms of secrecy capacity. We then consider two special cases of this channel model: (i) the Gaussian orthogonal relay channel, and (ii) the Gaussian Cover-Kim deterministic relay channel. For the former, the upper bound found is tighter than the previously known bound. For the latter, we show that the bound yields the secrecy capacity when the source-destination link is not worse than the source-relay link. This second case also provides the first example where secrecy capacity is achieved with compress and-forward at the relay.
We consider a confidential communication system in which a source sends a confidential information to the destination in the presence of an eavesdropper. Multiple relays are used to provide cooperative diversity to the destination. The destination and the eavesdropper are equipped with multiple antennas while each relay and source are equipped with single antenna. We are interested to protect the transmitted information from eavesdropping and to find the effect of receive diversity on the secrecy capacity of the proposed model. We consider the maximal ratio combining (MRC) technique at the destination and derive the expression of combiner output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using optimum weighting vector so that the eavesdropper is unable to decode a single bit from the original massage. Finally, we derive the expression of optimum secrecy capacity in terms of the number of relays and the number of antennas at the destination. Our results show that the optimization of weighting vector at the receiver enhances secrecy capacity of a wiretap channel.
We consider the communication scenario where a source-destination pair wishes to keep the information secret from a relay node despite wanting to enlist its help. For this scenario, an interesting question is whether the relay node should be deployed at all. That is, whether cooperation with an untrusted relay node can ever be beneficial. We first provide an achievable secrecy rate for the general untrusted relay channel, and proceed to investigate this question for two types of relay networks with orthogonal components. For the first model, there is an orthogonal link from the source to the relay. For the second model, there is an orthogonal link from the relay to the destination. For the first model, we find the equivocation capacity region and show that answer is negative. In contrast, for the second model, we find that the answer is positive. Specifically, we show, by means of the achievable secrecy rate based on compress-and-forward, that by asking the untrusted relay node to relay information, we can achieve a higher secrecy rate than just treating the relay as an eavesdropper. For a special class of the second model, where the relay is not interfering itself, we derive an upper bound for the secrecy rate using an argument whose net effect is to separate the eavesdropper from the relay. The merit of the new upper bound is demonstrated on two channels that belong to this special class. The Gaussian case of the second model mentioned above benefits from this approach in that the new upper bound improves the previously known bounds. For the Cover-Kim deterministic relay channel, the new upper bound finds the secrecy capacity when the source-destination link is not worse than the source-relay link, by matching with achievable rate we present.
The four-terminal relay-eavesdropper channel with orthogonal receive components (i.e. the signals transmitted from the source and relay do not interfere each other) is studied in this paper. As the relay node merely repeats the received noisy signal with the conventional amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying strategy, AF is suboptimal. A piecewise linear AF (PLAF) relaying scheme is utilized to the channel model in this paper. Achievable secrecy rate with PLAF is derived and computed numerically. Numerical examples are given to show the performance improvement of PLAF compared with AF. Simulation results show that PLAF outperforms AF and achieves a higher secrecy rate than decode-and-forward (DF) in some certain cases but without complex encoding and decoding.