This paper examines secrecy performance of a three-point system–where a main channel and a wiretap channel are present—under outdated channel state information (oCSI), correlated Rayleigh fading and finite-blocklength (FBL) regimes. A main channel and a wiretap channel experience oCSI severity, which impacts the system's average secrecy capacity (ASC) and secrecy outage probability (SOP). Compact expressions for the ASC and SOP will be offered. Hypothetical bounds give fresh insight into secrecy performance. Impact of FBL regimes on secrecy performance is also shown.
This paper examines secrecy performance of a three-point system–where a main channel and a wiretap channel are present—under outdated channel state information (oCSI), correlated Rayleigh fading and finite-blocklength (FBL) regimes. A main channel and a wiretap channel experience oCSI severity, which impacts the system's average secrecy capacity (ASC) and secrecy outage probability (SOP). Compact expressions for the ASC and SOP will be offered. Hypothetical bounds give fresh insight into secrecy performance. Impact of FBL regimes on secrecy performance is also shown.
This paper presents a secrecy performance study of a wiretap communication system with finite blocklength (FBL) transmissions over Rayleigh fading channels, based on the definition of an average information leakage (AIL) metric. We evaluate the exact and closed-form approximate AIL performance, assuming that only statistical channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropping link is available. Then, we reveal an inherent statistical relationship between the AIL metric in the FBL regime and the commonly-used secrecy outage probability in conventional infinite blocklength communications. Aiming to improve the secure communication performance of the considered system, we formulate a blocklength optimization problem and solve it via a low-complexity approach. Next, we present numerical results to verify our analytical findings and provide various important insights into the impacts of system parameters on the AIL. Specifically, our results indicate that i) compromising a small amount of AIL can lead to significant reliability improvements, and ii) the AIL experiences a secrecy floor in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime.
Abstract Information‐theoretic analysis of the communication systems performances is of practical and theoretical importance. In this article, we study side information impact on physical layer security in a Rayleigh fading wiretap channel by deriving closed‐form expressions for the average secrecy capacity (ASC), secrecy outage probability (SOP), secrecy coverage region (SCR), and specifically, the asymptotic behavior of SOP. The results, while including previous works as special cases, show that side information has positive effects over ASC and SOP, and also, it increases the SCR, as expected intuitively. Numerical evaluations have been done to support the claims.
This paper studies performance analysis of physical layer security in a Rayleigh fading wiretap channel, where, the main (transmitter-to-legitimate receiver) and eavesdropper (transmitter-to-eavesdropper) channel coefficients are correlated. By exploiting the novel approach called Copula theory, we derive closed-form expressions for average secrecy capacity (ASC), secrecy outage probability (SOP), and secrecy coverage region (SCR). Moreover, to more evaluate the impact of channel correlation, the asymptotic behavior of SOP in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime and other scenarios is studied, and finally, the analytical results are illustrated numerically under the positive dependence, independence, and negative dependence structures. Based on the insights from this analysis, we found that the effect of correlated fading on the performance of physical layer security can be helpful or harmful in different scenarios, depending on the structure of dependency between the main and eavesdropper channels.
This paper presents a detailed secrecy performance analysis of correlated multi-antenna wiretap channels with three popular diversity combining schemes, namely maximal ratio combining, selection combining, and equal gain combining at the legitimate receiver. For single-input multiple-output wiretap channels, both exact and asymptotic expressions are derived for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of these systems. The findings suggest that, compared with the scenario where all the channels are independent, correlation of the main channels alone increases the SOP by a factor of 1/ det(U), where det(U) is the determinant of correlation matrix U. In contrast, when the average SNR at the legitimate receiver is much larger than that at the eavesdropper, correlation between the main channels and the eavesdropper channels has a positive effect on SOP. Moreover, in the case of multiple-input and multiple-output wiretap channels, two transmit antenna selection schemes with or without the eavesdropper's channel state information are evaluated by the SOP and the average secrecy capacity for the considered correlated channel model, respectively. Finally, numerical simulations are conducted to corroborate the analytical results.
Secrecy Analysis of Physical Layer over κ−μ Shadowed Fading Scenarios
In this paper, the secrecy analysis of physical layer when both the main and wiretap channels undergo κ−μ shadowed fading channel is investigated. In particular, the average secrecy capacity (ASC), secure outage probability (SOP), the lower bound of SOP (SOPL), and the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC) are derived by using the classic Wyner's wiretap model. Two different scenarios for the fading parameters, i.e., μ and m which represents the shadowing impact have been studied. These parameters are chosen first as arbitrary numbers, thus the performance metrics are expressed in single infinite series with multivariate Meijer G-function. In the second scenario, both the aforementioned fading parameters are assumed to be integer numbers in order to obtain the derived results in simple exact closed-form analytic mathematically tractable expressions. The numerical results of this analysis are verified via Monte Carlo simulations.
Secrecy Performance of Correlated α -μ Fading Channels