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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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Cooperative Transmission for Downlink Distributed Antenna in Time Division Duplex System
Multi-user distributed antenna system (MU-DAS) systems play the
essential role in improving throughput performance in wireless communications. This improvement can be achieved by exploiting the spatial
domain and without the need of additional power and bandwidth. In
this thesis, three main issues which are of importance to the data rate
transmission have been investigated.
Firstly, user clustering in MU-DAS downlink systems has been considered, where this technique can be effciently used to reduce the complexity and cost caused by radio frequency chains, associated with antennas while keeping most of the diversity advantages of the system.
The proposed user clustering algorithm which can select an optimal set
of antennas for transmission. The capacity achieved by the proposed
algorithm is almost same as the capacity of the optimum search method,
with much lower complexity.
Secondly, interference alignment in MU-DAS downlink systems has
been studied. The inter-cluster interference is uncoordinated and limits
the system performance. The inter-cluster interference should be eliminated or minimized carefully. The interference alignment is proposed to
consolidate the strong inter-cluster interference into smaller dimensions
of signal space at each user and use the remaining dimensions to transmit
the desired signals without any interference. The performance of single
cluster is better than the proposed algorithm due to the absence of intercluster interference in the single cluster. The numerical shows that the
proposed algorithm is more suitable in multi-cell DAS environment due
to the presence of inter-cell interference.
Finally, the impact of different user mobility on TDD downlink MUDAS has been studied. The downlink data transmission in time division
duplex (TDD) systems is optimized according to the channel state information (CSI) which is obtained at the uplink time slot. However, the
actual channel at downlink time slot may be different from the estimated
channel due to channel variation in mobility environment. Based on mobility state information (MSI), an autocorrelation based feedback interval
adjustment technique is proposed. The proposed technique adjusts the
CSI update interval and mitigates the performance degradation imposed
by the user mobility and the transmission delay. Cooperative clusters are
formed to maximize sum rate. In order to reduce the computational complexity, a channel gain based antenna selection and signal-to-interference
plus noise ratio (SINR) based user clustering are developed. A downlink
ergodic capacity is derived in single user clustering. The derived analytical expressions of the downlink ergodic capacity are verified by system
simulations. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme can improved sum rate over the non cooperative system and no MSI knowledge.
The proposed technique has good performance for a wide range of user
speed and suitable for future wireless communications systems
Predictor Antenna Systems: Exploiting Channel State Information for Vehicle Communications
Vehicle communication is one of the most important use cases in the fifth
generation of wireless networks (5G). The growing demand for quality of service
(QoS) characterized by performance metrics, such as spectrum efficiency, peak
data rate, and outage probability, is mainly limited by inaccurate
prediction/estimation of channel state information (CSI) of the rapidly
changing environment around moving vehicles. One way to increase the prediction
horizon of CSI in order to improve the QoS is deploying predictor antennas
(PAs). A PA system consists of two sets of antennas typically mounted on the
roof of a vehicle, where the PAs positioned at the front of the vehicle are
used to predict the CSI observed by the receive antennas (RAs) that are aligned
behind the PAs. In realistic PA systems, however, the actual benefit is
affected by a variety of factors, including spatial mismatch, antenna
utilization, temporal correlation of scattering environment, and CSI estimation
error. This thesis investigates different resource allocation schemes for the
PA systems under practical constraints.Comment: Licentiate thesis, Chalmers University of Technolog
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