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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Wireless Secrecy Regions With Friendly Jamming

João P. Vilela, Matthieu R. Bloch, João Barros, Steven W. McLaughlin

Published Feb 3, 2011• 176 citations
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Abstract

Inspired by recent results on information-theoretic security, we consider the transmission of confidential messages over wireless networks, in which the legitimate communication partners are aided by friendly jammers. We characterize the security level of a confined region in a quasi-static fading environment by computing the probability of secrecy outage in connection with two new measures of physical-layer security: the jamming coverage and the jamming efficiency. Our analysis for various jamming strategies based on different levels of channel state information provides insight into the design of optimal jamming configurations and shows that a single jammer is not sufficient to maximize both figures of merit simultaneously. Moreover, a single jammer requires full channel state information to provide security gains in the vicinity of the legitimate receiver.

DOI
10.1109/tifs.2011.2111370

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We analyze the role of jamming as a means to increase the security of wireless systems. Specifically, we characterize the impact of cooperative/friendly jamming on the secrecy outage probability of a quasi-static wiretap fading channel. We introduce jamming coverage and jamming efficiency as security metrics, and evaluate the performance of three different jamming strategies that rely on various levels of channel state information. The analysis provides insight for the design of optimal jamming configurations and indicates that one jammer is not enough to maximize both metrics simultaneously.
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In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static fading channel and an eavesdropper observes their transmissions through another independent quasi-static fading channel. We define the secrecy capacity in terms of outage probability and provide a complete characterization of the maximum transmission rate at which the eavesdropper is unable to decode any information. In sharp contrast with known results for Gaussian wiretap channels (without feedback), our contribution shows that in the presence of fading information-theoretic security is achievable even when the eavesdropper has a better average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) than the legitimate receiver - fading thus turns out to be a friend and not a foe. The issue of imperfect channel state information is also addressed. Practical schemes for wireless information-theoretic security are presented in Part II, which in some cases comes close to the secrecy capacity limits given in this paper.
Theoretical studies on physical layer security often adopt the secrecy outage probability as the performance metric for wireless communications over quasi-static fading channels. The secrecy outage probability has two limitations from a practical point of view: 1) it does not give any insight into the eavesdropper's decodability of confidential messages and 2) it cannot characterize the amount of information leakage to the eavesdropper when an outage occurs. Motivated by the limitations of the secrecy outage probability, we propose three new secrecy metrics for secure transmissions over quasi-static fading channels. The first metric establishes a link between the concept of secrecy outage and the decodability of messages at the eavesdropper. The second metric provides an error-probability-based secrecy metric which is typically used for the practical implementation of secure wireless systems. The third metric characterizes how much or how fast the confidential information is leaked to the eavesdropper. We show that the proposed secrecy metrics collectively give a more comprehensive understanding of physical layer security over fading channels and enable one to appropriately design secure communication systems with different views on how secrecy is measured.
Theoretical studies on physical layer security often adopt the secrecy outage probability as the performance metric for wireless communications over quasi-static fading channels. The secrecy outage probability has two limitations from a practical point of view: 1) it does not give any insight into the eavesdropper's decodability of confidential messages and 2) it cannot characterize the amount of information leakage to the eavesdropper when an outage occurs. Motivated by the limitations of the secrecy outage probability, we propose three new secrecy metrics for secure transmissions over quasi-static fading channels. The first metric establishes a link between the concept of secrecy outage and the decodability of messages at the eavesdropper. The second metric provides an error-probability-based secrecy metric which is typically used for the practical implementation of secure wireless systems. The third metric characterizes how much or how fast the confidential information is leaked to the eavesdropper. We show that the proposed secrecy metrics collectively give a more comprehensive understanding of physical layer security over fading channels and enable one to appropriately design secure communication systems with different views on how secrecy is measured.
As the need of highly secure data transmission in wireless communication has increased rapidly, physical layer security gains a lots of attention recently. The transmission of confidential data between two legitimate users in the existence of the passive eavesdropper with quasi-static Rayleigh channel is considered. A new technique is proposed in which a friendly noise is incorporated with confidential data bearing signal such that it preserves the integrity of the signal and does not degrade the legitimate link. This friendly noise acts as jamming signal for eavesdropper. The analytical expression for secrecy outage probability of the proposed technique for both single and multiple antennas eavesdropper is derived. The secrecy performance of proposed technique is compared with the traditional direct transmission and the cooperative jamming schemes. The asymptotic nature of the outage probability is also studied for the different parameters. Numerical results are also presented to verify the analytical expressions of proposed model, which show that the proposed technique is better than the traditional direct transmission and the cooperative jamming schemes.