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Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC)

Beamforming for secrecy rate maximization under outage constraints and partial CSI

Sabrina Gerbracht, Christian Scheunert, Eduard Axel Jorswieck

Published Nov 1, 2011• 8 citations
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Abstract

Secrecy on the physical layer is a promising technique to simplify the overall cross-layer secrecy concept. In many recent works on the multiple antenna wiretap channel, perfect channel state information to the intended receiver as well as the passive eavesdropper are assumed. In this work, the transmitter has only partial information about the channel to the eavesdropper, but full information on the main channel to the intended receiver. The applied channel model is the flat-fading multiple-input single-output wiretap channel. We minimize the outage probability of secure transmission under single-stream beamforming. Additionally, we derive a suboptimal beamforming scheme based on a Markov bound, which performs reasonably well. The results generalize the cases with perfect as well as without channel state information of the eavesdropper channel. Numerical simulations illustrate the secrecy outage probability over the degree of channel knowledge and confirm the theoretical results.

DOI
10.1109/acssc.2011.6189983

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Secrecy on the physical layer receives increased research interest. Especially in the wireless communication scenarios, the interest in confidentiality of messages increases. In this paper, we discuss the effectiveness of the beamforming strategies maximum ratio transmission (MRT), zero forcing (ZF), and an optimized beamforming (BF) strategy for the transmission under secrecy constraints. The applied channel model is the flat-fading MISO (multiple-input single-output) wiretap channel, where the channel to the eavesdropper is only partly known at the transmitter. The scenario with perfect and no channel information to the eavesdropper are included as special cases. We show that under certain conditions the achievable secrecy rates for the transmission with optimized beam-forming can be increased by transmitting artificial noise (AN) in the null space of the channel to the intended receiver, which produces additional interference only at the eavesdropper. We provide a characterization of the optimal beamforming and artificial noise beamforming and analyze the optimal power allocation for asymptotic cases (low and high SNR as well as no and perfect channel information). Numerical simulations illustrate the results.
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The issue of physical layer security for the wireless communication with slow fading is addressed in this paper, and the secrecy outage performance is concerned. The system is modeled as a wiretap channel, and each of the transmitter and receivers is equipped with a single antenna. The channel state information (CSI) about the channel from the transmitter to the legitimate receiver (the main channel) is assumed to be perfectly known by the transmitter and the receivers, while the transmitter does not know the CSI about the channel from the transmitter to the eavesdropper (the eavesdropper's channel) but its probability density function (PDF). Differing from the fixed secrecy rate scheme and the on/off scheme in the literature, this paper adaptively chooses the secrecy rate. The secrecy rate for each value of the main channel gain is determined by the required secrecy outage probability and the PDF of the eavesdropper's channel, and the secrecy throughput is maximized under the constraint of the transmit power for the required secrecy outage probability. The quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel is used to compare our scheme with the two existing schemes, and simulation results show that our scheme outperforms them when small secrecy outage probabilities are required.
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