186 research outputs found
Design of Energy-Efficient Artificial Noise for Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communications
This paper studies the design of energy-efficient artificial noise (AN)
schemes in the context of physical layer security in visible light
communications (VLC). Two different transmission schemes termed
and
are examined and
compared in terms of secrecy energy efficiency (SEE). In the former, the
closest LED luminaire to the legitimate user (Bob) is the information-bearing
signal's transmitter. At the same time, the rest of the luminaries act as
jammers transmitting AN to degrade the channels of eavesdroppers (Eves). In the
latter, the information-bearing signal and AN are combined and transmitted by
all luminaries. When Eves' CSI is unknown, an indirect design to improve the
SEE is formulated by maximizing Bob's channel's energy efficiency. A
low-complexity design based on the zero-forcing criterion is also proposed. In
the case of known Eves' CSI, we study the design that maximizes the minimum SEE
among those corresponding to all eavesdroppers. At their respective optimal
SEEs, simulation results reveal that when Eves' CSI is unknown, the selective
AN-aided SISO transmission can archive twice better SEE as the AN-aided MISO
does. In contrast, when Eves' CSI is known, the AN-aided MISO outperforms by
30%
Optimal Beamforming for Physical Layer Security in MISO Wireless Networks
A wireless network of multiple transmitter-user pairs overheard by an
eavesdropper, where the transmitters are equipped with multiple antennas while
the users and eavesdropper are equipped with a single antenna, is considered.
At different levels of wireless channel knowledge, the problem of interest is
beamforming to optimize the users' quality-of-service (QoS) in terms of their
secrecy throughputs or maximize the network's energy efficiency under users'
QoS. All these problems are seen as very difficult optimization problems with
many nonconvex constraints and nonlinear equality constraints in beamforming
vectors. The paper develops path-following computational procedures of
low-complexity and rapid convergence for the optimal beamforming solution.
Their practicability is demonstrated through numerical examples
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,
201
Recent Advances in Joint Wireless Energy and Information Transfer
In this paper, we provide an overview of the recent advances in
microwave-enabled wireless energy transfer (WET) technologies and their
applications in wireless communications. Specifically, we divide our
discussions into three parts. First, we introduce the state-of-the-art WET
technologies and the signal processing techniques to maximize the energy
transfer efficiency. Then, we discuss an interesting paradigm named
simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), where energy and
information are jointly transmitted using the same radio waveform. At last, we
review the recent progress in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN),
where wireless devices communicate using the power harvested by means of WET.
Extensions and future directions are also discussed in each of these areas.Comment: Conference submission accepted by ITW 201
Optimization techniques for reliable data communication in multi-antenna wireless systems
This thesis looks at new methods of achieving reliable data communication in wireless communication systems using different antenna transmission optimization methods. In particular, the problems of exploitation of MIMO communication channel diversity, secure downlink beamforming techniques, adaptive beamforming techniques, resource allocation methods, simultaneous power and information transfer and energy harvesting within the context
of multi-antenna wireless systems are addressed
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