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UK-India International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Systems (UKIWCWS)

Secure wireless multicasting through Rayleigh fading channels — A secrecy tradeoff

Md. Zahurul I. Sarkar, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah, Mathini Sellathurai

Published Dec 1, 2009• 14 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, a wireless multicast scenario is considered in which the transmitter sends a common message to multiple client receivers in the presence of an eavesdropper. We are interested in protecting this common message against eavesdropping. Based on an information-theoretic formulation of the problem, in which the transmitter and the mutually independent multiple client receivers communicate over quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels and an eavesdropper observes their transmissions through another quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel, we define the secrecy-sum capacity in terms of secure outage probability. Moreover, we also present a formulation of ergodic perfect secrecy multicast capacity at which the eavesdropper is unable to decode any information.

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10.1109/ukiwcws.2009.5749425

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A secure multicasting framework is considered in this paper to investigate the secrecy performance of a single-input multiple-output (SIMO) system in which a single antenna source transmits private message to multiple receivers in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. All the receivers and eavesdroppers are equipped with multiple antennas. The perfect secrecy is obtained when evasedroppers can not be able to decode any transmitted information. Considering independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) Rician-K fading channels, the mathematical expressions for the probability of non-zero secrecy multicast capacity, the ergodic secrecy multicast capacity and the secure outage probability for multicasting are derived in closed-forms. Numerical results are provided to show the impact of the diversity provided by the multiple antennas at the receivers. In addition, the impact of Rician factor, K on the secrecy capacity and outage behaviour of the proposed multicasting scenario is also demonstrated. The performance analysis includes the Rayleigh fading scenario as a special case of Rician-K fading channel and focuses the performance comparison between Rician-K and Rayleigh fading channels.
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