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IEEE International Conference on Communications workshops

Analysis and Optimization for Artificial Noise Aided Physical Layer Security Under Clock Jitter

Yuxi Zhou, Changqing Song, Hongzhi Zhao, Shihai Shao

Published Jun 1, 2024• 2 citations
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Abstract

Transmitting the information-bearing signal simultaneously with artificial noise (AN) can guarantee secure data exchange on the open wireless channel. One of the key technologies is AN reconstruction and cancellation at the legitimate receiver, but its performance will be deteriorated by the ineluctable clock jitter at the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In this paper, first, the received signal distorted by clock jitter is mathe-matically modelled. Then, the closed-form expression of signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) after AN cancellation is deduced, and the secrecy capacity is derived to evaluate the system security. Furthermore, to alleviate the effect of clock jitter, the optimized transmitting power allocation scheme for AN and information signal is provided. Theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that the secrecy performance is limited by the 3 dB coherence bandwidth of the phase noise caused by clock jitter, time synchronization period, and transmitting power allocation factor. With the optimized power scheme, the secrecy capacity can be increased by up to 11 % in comparison to the equal power allocation, and the optimal power allocation factor equals one when there is no clock jitter.

DOI
10.1109/iccworkshops59551.2024.10615260

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