300 research outputs found
On the Throughput Cost of Physical Layer Security in Decentralized Wireless Networks
This paper studies the throughput of large-scale decentralized wireless
networks with physical layer security constraints. In particular, we are
interested in the question of how much throughput needs to be sacrificed for
achieving a certain level of security. We consider random networks where the
legitimate nodes and the eavesdroppers are distributed according to independent
two-dimensional Poisson point processes. The transmission capacity framework is
used to characterize the area spectral efficiency of secure transmissions with
constraints on both the quality of service (QoS) and the level of security.
This framework illustrates the dependence of the network throughput on key
system parameters, such as the densities of legitimate nodes and eavesdroppers,
as well as the QoS and security constraints. One important finding is that the
throughput cost of achieving a moderate level of security is quite low, while
throughput must be significantly sacrificed to realize a highly secure network.
We also study the use of a secrecy guard zone, which is shown to give a
significant improvement on the throughput of networks with high security
requirements.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
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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Efficient Wireless Security Through Jamming, Coding and Routing
There is a rich recent literature on how to assist secure communication
between a single transmitter and receiver at the physical layer of wireless
networks through techniques such as cooperative jamming. In this paper, we
consider how these single-hop physical layer security techniques can be
extended to multi-hop wireless networks and show how to augment physical layer
security techniques with higher layer network mechanisms such as coding and
routing. Specifically, we consider the secure minimum energy routing problem,
in which the objective is to compute a minimum energy path between two network
nodes subject to constraints on the end-to-end communication secrecy and
goodput over the path. This problem is formulated as a constrained optimization
of transmission power and link selection, which is proved to be NP-hard.
Nevertheless, we show that efficient algorithms exist to compute both exact and
approximate solutions for the problem. In particular, we develop an exact
solution of pseudo-polynomial complexity, as well as an epsilon-optimal
approximation of polynomial complexity. Simulation results are also provided to
show the utility of our algorithms and quantify their energy savings compared
to a combination of (standard) security-agnostic minimum energy routing and
physical layer security. In the simulated scenarios, we observe that, by
jointly optimizing link selection at the network layer and cooperative jamming
at the physical layer, our algorithms reduce the network energy consumption by
half
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