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Artificial-Noise-Aided Robust Beamforming for MISOME Wiretap Channels with Security QoS

Xiaochen Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Guozhen Zang, Nan Sha

Published Oct 1, 2019• 1 citation

Abstract

This paper studies secure communication from a multi-antenna transmitter to a single-antenna receiver in the presence of multiple multi-antenna eavesdroppers, considering constraints of security quality of service (QoS), i.e., minimum allowable signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) at receiver and maximum tolerable SINR at eavesdroppers. The robust joint optimal beamforming (RJOBF) of secret signal and artificial noise (AN) is designed to minimize transmit power while estimation errors of channel state information (CSI) for wiretap channels are taken into consideration. The formulated design problem is shown to be nonconvex and we transfer it into linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) along with semidefinite relaxation (SDR) technique. The simulation results illustrate that our proposed RJOBF is efficient for power saving in security communication.

DOI: 10.1109/icct46805.2019.8947004

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