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International Conference on Communication and Network Security (ICCNS)

Multiple Eavesdropper-Based Physical Layer Security in TAS/MRC System With Antenna Correlation

Gangcan Sun, Mengge Liu, Zhuo Han

Published Nov 2, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the impact of the antenna correlation on the secrecy of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channels with multiple eavesdroppers, where transmit antenna selection (TAS) and maximal-ratio combining (MRC) are employed at the transmitter, receiver and eavesdroppers, respectively. For the practical passive eavesdropping, we first develop new and closed general formulas for the secrecy outage probability and the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity to characterize the effect of spatial correlation, and results prove that the enhanced security performance can be achieved when multiple antennas are provided at the transmitter. We then explore how spatial correlation affects the asymptotic secrecy outage probability, and the secrecy diversity order is revealed. Based on these, the results show that when the average SNR of the main channel is relatively low, higher antenna correlation is more perfect to the secrecy. When the average SNR of the main channel is relatively high, higher antenna correlation is more destructive to the secrecy.

DOI
10.1145/3290480.3290489

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The impact of feedback errors on the security performances of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channels is analyzed. For the legitimate MIMO system, two schemes are considered: 1) transmit antenna selection/maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) and 2) transmit antenna selection/receive antenna selection (TAS/RAS). The eavesdropper uses either MRC or RAS techniques. We derive closed-form expressions for the exact secrecy outage probability (SOP) and the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity (PSPSC). In order to obtain the secrecy diversity order and the secrecy array gain, on asymptotic SOP expression is also derived.
We propose and analyze transmit antenna selection (TAS) to enhance physical layer security in a wiretap channel with NAantennas at the transmitter, NBantennas at the receiver, and NEantennas at the eavesdropper. We focus on the practical scenario where the transmitter does not have any channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper's channel. The transmitter selects a single antenna that maximizes the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver. The receiver and the eavesdropper employ either maximal-ratio combining (MRC) or selection combining (SC) to combine the received signals. For the proposed protocols, we derive new closed-form expressions for the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity. We consider Nakagami-m fading with non-identical fading parameters of the main channel, mB, and of the eavesdropper's channel, mE. Next, we derive new closed-form expressions for the exact secrecy outage probability, based on which the ε-outage secrecy capacity is characterized. Based on the exact expressions, we derive the asymptotic secrecy outage probability which accurately reveals the secrecy diversity order and the secrecy array gain. We confirm that the proposed protocols achieve identical secrecy diversity orders of NANBmB. An interesting conclusion is reached that this diversity order is independent of NEand mE. Furthermore, we prove that under the proposed protocols, the secrecy outage probability and the ε-outage secrecy capacity improve with increasing NA.
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