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Principles of Physical Layer Security in Multiuser Wireless Networks: A Survey
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer
security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of
physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over
a wireless medium in the presence of unauthorized eavesdroppers without relying
on higher-layer encryption. This can be achieved primarily in two ways: without
the need for a secret key by intelligently designing transmit coding
strategies, or by exploiting the wireless communication medium to develop
secret keys over public channels. The survey begins with an overview of the
foundations dating back to the pioneering work of Shannon and Wyner on
information-theoretic security. We then describe the evolution of secure
transmission strategies from point-to-point channels to multiple-antenna
systems, followed by generalizations to multiuser broadcast, multiple-access,
interference, and relay networks. Secret-key generation and establishment
protocols based on physical layer mechanisms are subsequently covered.
Approaches for secrecy based on channel coding design are then examined, along
with a description of inter-disciplinary approaches based on game theory and
stochastic geometry. The associated problem of physical-layer message
authentication is also introduced briefly. The survey concludes with
observations on potential research directions in this area.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, 303 refs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1303.1609 by other authors. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,
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Finite Random Matrix Theory Analysis of Multiple Antenna Communication Systems
Multiple-antenna systems are capable of providing substantial improvement to wireless communication networks, in terms of
data rate and reliability. Without utilizing extra spectrum or power resources, multiple-antenna technology has already been supported
in several wireless communication standards, such as LTE, WiFi and WiMax. The surging popularity and enormous prospect of
multiple-antenna technology require a better understanding to its fundamental performance over practical environments.
Motivated by this, this thesis provides analytical characterizations of several seminal performance measures in advanced multiple-antenna
systems. The analytical derivations are mainly based on finite dimension random matrix theory and a collection of novel random matrix theory
results are derived.
The closed-form probability density function of the output of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) block-fading channels is studied.
In contrast to the existing results, the proposed expressions are very general, applying for arbitrary number of antennas, arbitrary signal-to-noise
ratio and multiple classical fading models. Results are presented assuming two input structures in the system: the independent identical distributed
(i.i.d.) Gaussian input and a product form input. When the channel is fed by the i.i.d. Gaussian input, analysis is focused on the channel matrices
whose Gramian is unitarily invariant. When the channel is fed by a product form input, analysis is conducted with respect to two capacity-achieving
input structures that are dependent upon the relationship between the coherence length and the number of antennas. The mutual information
of the systems can be computed numerically from the pdf expression of the output. The computation is relatively easy to handle, avoiding the
need of the straight Monte-Carlo computation which is not feasible in large-dimensional networks.
The analytical characterization of the output pdf of a single-user MIMO block-fading channels with imperfect channel state information at the receiver
is provided. The analysis is carried out under the assumption of a product structure for the input. The model can be thought of as a perturbation
of the case where the statistics of the channel are perfectly known. Specifically, the average singular values of the channel are given, while the
channel singular vectors are assumed to be isotropically distributed on the unitary groups of dimensions given by the number of transmit and
receive antennas. The channel estimate is affected by a Gaussian distributed error, which is modeled as a matrix with i.i.d. Gaussian entries of
known covariance.
The ergodic capacity of an amplify-and-forward (AF) MIMO relay network over asymmetric channels is investigated. In particular, the source-relay
and relay-destination channels undergo Rayleigh and Rician fading, respectively. Considering arbitrary-rank means for the relay-destination channel,
the marginal distribution of an unordered eigenvalue of the cascaded AF channel is presented, thus the analytical expression of the ergodic capacity
of the system is obtained. The results indicate the impact of the signal-to-noise ratio and of the Line-of-Sight component on such asymmetric
relay network
Delay Performance of MISO Wireless Communications
Ultra-reliable, low latency communications (URLLC) are currently attracting
significant attention due to the emergence of mission-critical applications and
device-centric communication. URLLC will entail a fundamental paradigm shift
from throughput-oriented system design towards holistic designs for guaranteed
and reliable end-to-end latency. A deep understanding of the delay performance
of wireless networks is essential for efficient URLLC systems. In this paper,
we investigate the network layer performance of multiple-input, single-output
(MISO) systems under statistical delay constraints. We provide closed-form
expressions for MISO diversity-oriented service process and derive
probabilistic delay bounds using tools from stochastic network calculus. In
particular, we analyze transmit beamforming with perfect and imperfect channel
knowledge and compare it with orthogonal space-time codes and antenna
selection. The effect of transmit power, number of antennas, and finite
blocklength channel coding on the delay distribution is also investigated. Our
higher layer performance results reveal key insights of MISO channels and
provide useful guidelines for the design of ultra-reliable communication
systems that can guarantee the stringent URLLC latency requirements.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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