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Improved Rate-Equivocation Regions for Secure Cooperative Communication
A simple four node network in which cooperation improves the
information-theoretic secrecy is studied. The channel consists of two senders,
a receiver, and an eavesdropper. One or both senders transmit confidential
messages to the receiver, while the eavesdropper tries to decode the
transmitted message. The main result is the derivation of a newly achievable
rate-equivocation region that is shown to be larger than a rate-equivocation
region derived by Lai and El Gamal for the relay-eavesdropper channel. When the
rate of the helping interferer is zero, the new rate-equivocation region
reduces to the capacity-equivocation region over the wire-tap channel, hence,
the new achievability scheme can be seen as a generalization of a coding scheme
proposed by Csiszar and Korner. This result can naturally be combined with a
rate-equivocation region given by Tang et al. (for the interference assisted
secret communication), yielding an even larger achievable rate-equivocation
region.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figure
Secure Degrees of Freedom for Gaussian Channels with Interference: Structured Codes Outperform Gaussian Signaling
In this work, we prove that a positive secure degree of freedom is achievable
for a large class of Gaussian channels as long as the channel is not degraded
and the channel is fully connected. This class includes the MAC wire-tap
channel, the 2-user interference channel with confidential messages, the 2-user
interference channel with an external eavesdropper. Best known achievable
schemes to date for these channels use Gaussian signaling. In this work, we
show that structured codes outperform Gaussian random codes at high SNR when
channel gains are real numbers.Comment: 6 pages, Submitted to IEEE Globecom, March 200
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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A Survey on Wireless Security: Technical Challenges, Recent Advances and Future Trends
This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the
inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense
mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the
security requirements of wireless networks, including their authenticity,
confidentiality, integrity and availability issues. Next, a comprehensive
overview of security attacks encountered in wireless networks is presented in
view of the network protocol architecture, where the potential security threats
are discussed at each protocol layer. We also provide a survey of the existing
security protocols and algorithms that are adopted in the existing wireless
network standards, such as the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the long-term
evolution (LTE) systems. Then, we discuss the state-of-the-art in
physical-layer security, which is an emerging technique of securing the open
communications environment against eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer.
We also introduce the family of various jamming attacks and their
counter-measures, including the constant jammer, intermittent jammer, reactive
jammer, adaptive jammer and intelligent jammer. Additionally, we discuss the
integration of physical-layer security into existing authentication and
cryptography mechanisms for further securing wireless networks. Finally, some
technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are
summarized and the future trends in wireless security are discussed.Comment: 36 pages. Accepted to Appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 201
A Survey of Physical Layer Security Techniques for 5G Wireless Networks and Challenges Ahead
Physical layer security which safeguards data confidentiality based on the
information-theoretic approaches has received significant research interest
recently. The key idea behind physical layer security is to utilize the
intrinsic randomness of the transmission channel to guarantee the security in
physical layer. The evolution towards 5G wireless communications poses new
challenges for physical layer security research. This paper provides a latest
survey of the physical layer security research on various promising 5G
technologies, including physical layer security coding, massive multiple-input
multiple-output, millimeter wave communications, heterogeneous networks,
non-orthogonal multiple access, full duplex technology, etc. Technical
challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are summarized and
the future trends of physical layer security in 5G and beyond are discussed.Comment: To appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
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