The impact of finite-alphabet input on the secrecy-achievable rates for broadcast channel with confidential message

International audienceThis paper investigates the maximization of the secrecyachievable rate region for the Gaussian broadcast channel with confidential message (BCCM) using finite input constellations. The maximization is done jointly over symbol positions and their joint probabilities. The secrecy-achievable rate regions are given for various broadcast strategies which differ in their complexity of implementation. We compare these strategies in terms of improvement in achievable rates and we study the impact of finite input alphabet on the secrecyachievable rates. It is shown that finite alphabet constraints may change well known results holding in the Gaussian case

Rooftop and indoor reception with transmit diversity applied to DVB-T networks: A long term measurement campaign

Although transmit Delay Diversity (DD) can provide a gain in indoor and other Non Line of Sight situations (NLOS), it can introduce degradation in rooftop reception. In fact, when the Ricean K factor of the channel is significantly high (e.g. Line of Sight reception), the channel performs similar to an AWGN channel where the performance degrades due to DD that artificially increase the fading. This paper investigates through practical evaluation the impacts of Transmit DD on LOS and NLOS stationary reception. Then, it studies 2 techniques to reduce the degradation performance in LOS while aiming to keep the same diversity gain in NLOS receptio

Constellation design for future communication systems: a comprehensive survey

[EN] The choice of modulation schemes is a fundamental building block of wireless communication systems. As a key component of physical layer design, they critically impact the expected communication capacity and wireless signal robustness. Their design is also critical for the successful roll-out of wireless standards that require a compromise between performance, efficiency, latency, and hardware requirements. This paper presents a survey of constellation design strategies and associated outcomes for wireless communication systems. The survey discusses their performance and complexity to address the need for some desirable properties, including consistency, channel capacity, system performance, required demapping architecture, flexibility, and independence. Existing approaches for constellation designs are investigated using appropriate metrics and categorized based on their theoretical algorithm design. Next, their application to different communication standards is analyzed in context, aiming at distilling general guidelines applicable to the wireless building block design. Finally, the survey provides a discussion on design directions for future communication system standardization processes.This work was supported in part by the Basque Government under Grant IT1234-19, in part by the PREDOC under Program PRE_2020_2_0105, and in part by the Spanish Government through the Project PHANTOM (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) under Gran

Measurements, processing functions and laboratory test-bed experiments for evaluating diversity in broadcast network

This paper presents a test-bed development and measurement plan for evaluating transmit diversity and on-channel repeaters in the Digital Video Broadcasting Network. Transmit diversity reduces the complexity and improves the power consumption of the personal receiving devices by enhancing the transmission of signals in NLOS cluttered environments. It is more practical than receive diversity due to the difficulty of locating two receive antennas far enough apart in a small mobile device. The on-channel repeater is to extend the coverage of the DVB-T/H network in areas where services are inaccessible by receiving the DVB-T/H signals off air, amplifying and then retransmitting it on the same frequency as received. Test service scenarios were developed to illustrate the benefits of such technologies so that effectiveness can be researched in a variety of service and terrain scenarios using purpose built test systems.The work presented in this paper was supported by the European Commission IST project PLUTO

Advanced constellation and demapper schemes for next generation digital terrestrial television broadcasting systems

206 p.Esta tesis presenta un nuevo tipo de constelaciones llamadas no uniformes. Estos esquemas presentan una eficacia de hasta 1,8 dB superior a las utilizadas en los últimos sistemas de comunicaciones de televisión digital terrestre y son extrapolables a cualquier otro sistema de comunicaciones (satélite, móvil, cable¿). Además, este trabajo contribuye al diseño de constelaciones con una nueva metodología que reduce el tiempo de optimización de días/horas (metodologías actuales) a horas/minutos con la misma eficiencia. Todas las constelaciones diseñadas se testean bajo una plataforma creada en esta tesis que simula el estándar de radiodifusión terrestre más avanzado hasta la fecha (ATSC 3.0) bajo condiciones reales de funcionamiento.Por otro lado, para disminuir la latencia de decodificación de estas constelaciones esta tesis propone dos técnicas de detección/demapeo. Una es para constelaciones no uniformes de dos dimensiones la cual disminuye hasta en un 99,7% la complejidad del demapeo sin empeorar el funcionamiento del sistema. La segunda técnica de detección se centra en las constelaciones no uniformes de una dimensión y presenta hasta un 87,5% de reducción de la complejidad del receptor sin pérdidas en el rendimiento.Por último, este trabajo expone un completo estado del arte sobre tipos de constelaciones, modelos de sistema, y diseño/demapeo de constelaciones. Este estudio es el primero realizado en este campo

Schémas pratiques pour la diffusion (sécurisée) sur les canaux sans fils

Dans cette thèse, on s'est intéressé à l'étude des canaux de diffusion avec des contraintes de transmission pratiques. Tout d'abord, on a étudié l'impact de la contrainte pratique de l'utilisation d'un alphabet fini à l'entrée du canal de diffusion Gaussien avec deux utilisateurs. Deux modèles de canaux de diffusion sont considérés lorsqu'il y a, en plus d'un message commun pour les deux utilisateurs, (i) un message privé pour l'un des deux utilisateurs sans contrainte de sécurité (ii) un message confidentiel pour l'un des deux utilisateurs qui doit être totalement caché de l'autre utilisateur. On a présenté plusieurs stratégies de diffusion distinguées par leur complexité d'implémentation. Plus précisément, on a étudié les régions des débits atteignables en utilisant le partage de temps, la superposition de modulation et le codage par superposition. Pour la superposition de modulation et le cas général du codage par superposition, les régions des débits atteignables maximales sont obtenues en maximisant par rapport aux positions des symboles dans la constellation et la distribution de probabilité jointe. On a étudié le compromis entre la complexité d'implémentation des stratégies de transmission et leurs efficacités en termes de gains en débits atteignables. On a étudié aussi l'impact de la contrainte de sécurité sur la communication en comparant les débits atteignables avec et sans cette contrainte. Enfin, on a étudié les performances du système avec des schémas d'accusés de réception hybrides (HARQ) pour un canal à écoute à évanouissement par blocs lorsque l'émetteur n'a pas une information parfaite sur l'état instantané du canal mais connait seulement les statistiques. On a considéré un schéma adaptatif pour la communication sécurisée en utilisant des canaux de retour à niveaux multiples vers l'émetteur pour changer la longueur des sous mots de code à chaque retransmission afin que le débit utile secret soit maximisé sous des contraintes d'"outages".In this thesis, we aim to study broadcast channels with practical transmission constraints. First, we study the impact of finite input alphabet constraint on the achievable rates for the Gaussian broadcast channel with two users. We consider two models of broadcast channels, when there is in addition of a common message for two users, (i) a private message for one of them without secrecy constraint (ii) a confidential message for one of them which should be totally hidden from the other user. We present several broadcast strategies distinguished by their complexity of implementation. More precisely, we study achievable rate regions using time sharing, superposition modulation and superposition coding. For superposition modulation and superposition coding strategies, maximal achievable rate regions are obtained by maximizing over both symbol positions in the constellation and the joint probability distribution. We study the tradeoff between the complexity of implementation of the transmission strategies and their efficiency in terms of gains in achievable rates. We study also the impact of the secrecy constraint on communication by comparing the achievable rates with and without this constraint. Finally, we study the system performance using HARQ schemes for the block-fading wiretap channel when the transmitter has no instantaneous channel state information but knows channel statistics. We consider an adaptive-rate scheme for the secure communication by using multilevel feedback channels to change sub-codeword lengths at each retransmission, in order to maximize the secrecy throughput under outage probabilities constraints.PARIS11-SCD-Bib. électronique (914719901) / SudocSudocFranceF