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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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Effects of channel estimation on multiuser virtual MIMO-OFDMA relay-based networks
A practical multiuser cooperative transmission scheme denoted as Virtual Maximum Ratio Transmission (VMRT) for multiple-input multiple-output-orthogonal frequency division multiple access (MIMO-OFDMA) relay-based networks is proposed and evaluated in the presence of a realistic channel estimation algorithm and using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. It is shown that this scheme is robust against channel estimation errors. It offers diversity and array gain, keeping the complexity low with a multiuser and multiantenna channel estimation algorithm that is simple and efficient. In addition, the combination with LDPC codes provides improved gains; diversity gains larger than 6âdB can be easily obtained with a reduced number of relays. Thus, this scheme can be used to extend coverage or increase system throughput by using simple cooperative OFDMA-based relays.The authors would like to thank Jae-Yun Ko for his valuable
help at the beginning of our work. This work has been partly
funded by the projects MULTIADAPTIVE (TEC2008-06327-
C03-02), COMONSENS (CSD2008-00010) and CODIV
(ICT-2007-215477).Publicad
Throughput Scaling of Wireless Networks With Random Connections
This work studies the throughput scaling laws of ad hoc wireless networks in
the limit of a large number of nodes. A random connections model is assumed in
which the channel connections between the nodes are drawn independently from a
common distribution. Transmitting nodes are subject to an on-off strategy, and
receiving nodes employ conventional single-user decoding. The following results
are proven:
1) For a class of connection models with finite mean and variance, the
throughput scaling is upper-bounded by for single-hop schemes, and
for two-hop (and multihop) schemes.
2) The throughput scaling is achievable for a specific
connection model by a two-hop opportunistic relaying scheme, which employs
full, but only local channel state information (CSI) at the receivers, and
partial CSI at the transmitters.
3) By relaxing the constraints of finite mean and variance of the connection
model, linear throughput scaling is achievable with Pareto-type
fading models.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information
Theor
Effects of channel estimation on multiuser virtual MIMO-OFDMA relay-based networks
In this paper, a practical multi-user cooperative transmission scheme denoted as Virtual Maximum Ratio
Transmission (VMRT) for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
(MIMO-OFDMA) Relay-based networks is proposed and evaluated in the presence of a realistic channel estimation
algorithm. It is shown that this scheme is robust against channel estimation errors and offers diversity and array
gain keeping the complexity low, although the multi-user and multi-antenna channel estimation algorithm is simple
and efficient. Diversity gains larger than 4 can be easily obtained with reduced number of relays. Thus, this scheme
can be used to extend coverage or increase system throughput by using simple cooperative OFDMA-based relays
Effects of channel estimation on multiuser virtual MIMO-OFDMA relay-based networks
In this paper, a practical multi-user cooperative transmission scheme denoted as Virtual Maximum Ratio
Transmission (VMRT) for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
(MIMO-OFDMA) Relay-based networks is proposed and evaluated in the presence of a realistic channel estimation
algorithm. It is shown that this scheme is robust against channel estimation errors and offers diversity and array
gain keeping the complexity low, although the multi-user and multi-antenna channel estimation algorithm is simple
and efficient. Diversity gains larger than 4 can be easily obtained with reduced number of relays. Thus, this scheme
can be used to extend coverage or increase system throughput by using simple cooperative OFDMA-based relays
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