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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
Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks: A MAC Layer Perspective
The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is seen as a key enabler of
multi-gigabit wireless access in future cellular networks. In order to overcome
the propagation challenges, mmWave systems use a large number of antenna
elements both at the base station and at the user equipment, which lead to high
directivity gains, fully-directional communications, and possible noise-limited
operations. The fundamental differences between mmWave networks and traditional
ones challenge the classical design constraints, objectives, and available
degrees of freedom. This paper addresses the implications that highly
directional communication has on the design of an efficient medium access
control (MAC) layer. The paper discusses key MAC layer issues, such as
synchronization, random access, handover, channelization, interference
management, scheduling, and association. The paper provides an integrated view
on MAC layer issues for cellular networks, identifies new challenges and
tradeoffs, and provides novel insights and solution approaches.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, to appear in IEEE Transactions on
Communication
Compressed Sensing Based Multi-User Millimeter Wave Systems: How Many Measurements Are Needed?
Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ directional beamforming
with large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. Acquiring
channel knowledge to design these beamformers, however, is challenging due to
the large antenna arrays and small signal-to-noise ratio before beamforming. In
this paper, we propose and evaluate a downlink system operation for multi-user
mmWave systems based on compressed sensing channel estimation and conjugate
analog beamforming. Adopting the achievable sum-rate as a performance metric,
we show how many compressed sensing measurements are needed to approach the
perfect channel knowledge performance. The results illustrate that the proposed
algorithm requires an order of magnitude less training overhead compared with
traditional lower-frequency solutions, while employing mmWave-suitable
hardware. They also show that the number of measurements need to be optimized
to handle the trade-off between the channel estimate quality and the training
overhead.Comment: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing (ICASSP) 201
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