On Secrecy Performance of Antenna-Selection-Aided MIMO Systems Against Eavesdropping

In this paper, the authors consider a multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) system consisting of one source, one destination, and one eavesdropper, where each node is equipped with an arbitrary number of antennas. To improve the security of source-destination transmissions, the authors investigate the antenna selection at the source and propose the optimal antenna selection (OAS) and suboptimal antenna selection (SAS) schemes, depending on whether the source node has the global channel state information (CSI) of both the main link (from source to destination) and the wiretap link (from source to eavesdropper). Moreover, the traditional space-time transmission (STT) is studied as a benchmark. The authors evaluate the secrecy performance of STT, SAS, and OAS schemes in terms of the probability of zero secrecy capacity. Furthermore, the authors examine the generalized secrecy diversity of the STT, SAS, and OAS schemes through an asymptotic analysis of the probability of zero secrecy capacity as the ratio between the average gains of the main and wiretap channels tends to infinity. This is different from the conventional secrecy diversity that assumes an infinite signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) received at the destination under the condition that the eavesdropper has a finite received SNR. It is shown that the generalized secrecy diversity orders of the STT, SAS, and OAS schemes are the product of the number of antennas at source and destination. Additionally, numerical results show that the proposed OAS scheme strictly outperforms both the STT and the SAS schemes in terms of the probability of zero secrecy capacity.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2015.2397195
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00189545
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Zhu, Jialin
  • Zou, Y
  • Wang, G
  • Yao, Y
  • Karagiannidis, G K
• Publication Date: 2016-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 214-225
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 65
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Antennas; Input output models; Interference; Network nodes; Origin and destination; Probability; Security; Transmission
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fading channels (Wireless networks)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01588468
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2016 9:01AM