8 research outputs found
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
Physical Layer Security in Large-Scale Random Multiple Access Wireless Sensor Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Approach
This paper investigates physical layer security for a large-scale WSN with random multiple access, where each fusion center in the network randomly schedules a number of sensors to upload their sensed data subject to the overhearing of randomly distributed eavesdroppers. We propose an uncoordinated random jamming scheme in which those unscheduled sensors send jamming signals with a certain probability to defeat the eavesdroppers. With the aid of stochastic geometry theory and order statistics, we derive analytical expressions for the connection outage probability and secrecy outage probability to characterize transmission reliability and secrecy, respectively. Based on the obtained analytical results, we formulate an optimization problem for maximizing the sum secrecy throughput subject to both reliability and secrecy constraints, considering a joint design of the wiretap code rates for each scheduled sensor and the jamming probability for the unscheduled sensors. We provide both optimal and low-complexity sub-optimal algorithms to tackle the above problem, and further reveal various properties on the optimal parameters which are useful to guide practical designs. In particular, we demonstrate that the proposed random jamming scheme is beneficial for improving the sum secrecy throughput, and the optimal jamming probability is the result of trade-off between secrecy and throughput. We also show that the throughput performance of the sub-optimal scheme approaches that of the optimal one when facing a stringent reliability constraint or a loose secrecy constraint
Physical Layer Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Under A Hybrid Full-/Half-Duplex Receiver Deployment Strategy
This paper studies physical layer security in a wireless ad hoc network with
numerous legitimate transmitter-receiver pairs and eavesdroppers. A hybrid
full-/half-duplex receiver deployment strategy is proposed to secure legitimate
transmissions, by letting a fraction of legitimate receivers work in the
full-duplex (FD) mode sending jamming signals to confuse eavesdroppers upon
their information receptions, and letting the other receivers work in the
half-duplex mode just receiving their desired signals. The objective of this
paper is to choose properly the fraction of FD receivers for achieving the
optimal network security performance. Both accurate expressions and tractable
approximations for the connection outage probability and the secrecy outage
probability of an arbitrary legitimate link are derived, based on which the
area secure link number, network-wide secrecy throughput and network-wide
secrecy energy efficiency are optimized respectively. Various insights into the
optimal fraction are further developed and its closed-form expressions are also
derived under perfect self-interference cancellation or in a dense network. It
is concluded that the fraction of FD receivers triggers a non-trivial trade-off
between reliability and secrecy, and the proposed strategy can significantly
enhance the network security performance.Comment: Journal paper, double-column 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted by IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications, 201
Transmit optimization techniques for physical layer security
PhD ThesisOver the last several decades, reliable communication has received considerable
attention in the area of dynamic network con gurations and
distributed processing techniques. Traditional secure communications
mainly considered transmission cryptography, which has been developed
in the network layer. However, the nature of wireless transmission introduces
various challenges of key distribution and management in establishing
secure communication links. Physical layer security has been
recently recognized as a promising new design paradigm to provide security
in wireless networks in addition to existing conventional cryptographic
methods, where the physical layer dynamics of fading channels
are exploited to establish secure wireless links. On the other hand, with
the ever-increasing demand of wireless access users, multi-antenna transmission
has been considered as one of e ective approaches to improve
the capacity of wireless networks. Multi-antenna transmission applied
in physical layer security has extracted more and more attentions by
exploiting additional degrees of freedom and diversity gains.
In this thesis, di erent multi-antenna transmit optimization techniques
are developed for physical layer secure transmission. The secrecy rate
optimization problems (i.e., power minimization and secrecy rate maximization)
are formulated to guarantee the optimal power allocation.
First, transmit optimization for multiple-input single-output (MISO) secrecy
channels are developed to design secure transmit beamformer that
minimize the transmit power to achieve a target secrecy rate. Besides,
the associated robust scheme with the secrecy rate outage probability
constraint are presented with statistical channel uncertainty, where the
outage probability constraint requires that the achieved secrecy rate
exceeds certain thresholds with a speci c probability. Second, multiantenna
cooperative jammer (CJ) is presented to provide jamming services
that introduces extra interference to assist a multiple-input multipleoutput
(MIMO) secure transmission. Transmit optimization for this CJaided
MIMO secrecy channel is designed to achieve an optimal power
allocation. Moreover, secure transmission is achieved when the CJ introduces
charges for its jamming service based on the amount of the
interference caused to the eavesdropper, where the Stackelberg game
is proposed to handle, and the Stackelberg equilibrium is analytically
derived. Finally, transmit optimization for MISO secure simultaneous
wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is investigated, where
secure transmit beamformer is designed with/without the help of arti -
cial noise (AN) to maximize the achieved secrecy rate such that satisfy
the transmit power budget and the energy harvesting (EH) constraint.
The performance of all proposed schemes are validated by MATLAB
simulation results