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IEEE Communications Letters

Anti-Eavesdropping Scheme Based on Quadrature Spatial Modulation

Zhijie Huang, Zhenzhen Gao, Li Sun

Published Nov 29, 2016• 41 citations
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Abstract

To resist the passive eavesdropping while reserving the same hardware cost and receiver structure of the legitimate receiver, a secure quadrature spatial modulation (QSM) scheme is proposed in this letter. Instead of the information symbol, a mixture of the information symbol and artificial noise is transmitted through the activated transmit antennas. The mixed signals are designed, so that the artificial noise is cancelled at the legitimate receiver but cause random interference to the eavesdropper. The secrecy rate is analyzed and the optimal power allocation between the artificial noise and the information signal is investigated. The influence of the number of the eavesdropper's antennas is discussed. Simulation results show that, for multiple-input-single-output systems, the proposed secure QSM scheme achieves the best secrecy performance among the existing similar schemes by using less radio frequency chains. For multiple-input-multiple-output systems, the secure QSM scheme performs better than the existing secure SM scheme does under the same power constraint and transmission rate.

DOI
10.1109/lcomm.2016.2633422

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