TY - JOUR
T1 - On secrecy performance of antenna-selection-aided MIMO systems against eavesdropping
AU - Zhu, Jia
AU - Zou, Yulong
AU - Wang, Gongpu
AU - Yao, Yu Dong
AU - Karagiannidis, George K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - In this paper, we 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, we 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. We evaluate the secrecy performance of STT, SAS, and OAS schemes in terms of the probability of zero secrecy capacity. Furthermore, we 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.
AB - In this paper, we 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, we 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. We evaluate the secrecy performance of STT, SAS, and OAS schemes in terms of the probability of zero secrecy capacity. Furthermore, we 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.
KW - Antenna selection
KW - Eavesdropping attack
KW - Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
KW - Secrecy diversity
KW - Space-time code
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U2 - 10.1109/TVT.2015.2397195
DO - 10.1109/TVT.2015.2397195
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84959348023
SN - 0018-9545
VL - 65
SP - 214
EP - 225
JO - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
JF - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IS - 1
M1 - 7024178
ER -