Artificial-noise-aided secure multi-antenna transmission with limited feedback

Xi Zhang, Matthew R. McKay, Xiangyun Zhou, Robert W. Heath

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    Abstract

    We present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as unknown eavesdropper channel characteristics, our approach is aimed at maximizing throughput under dual performance constraints - a connection outage constraint on the desired communication channel and a secrecy outage constraint to guard against eavesdropping. We propose an adaptive transmission strategy that judiciously selects the wiretap coding parameters, as well as the power allocation between the artificial noise and the information signal. This optimized solution reveals several important differences with respect to solutions designed previously under the assumption of perfect feedback. We also investigate the problem of how to most efficiently utilize the feedback bits. The simulation results indicate that a good design strategy is to use approximately 20% of these bits to quantize the channel gain information, with the remainder to quantize the channel direction, and this allocation is largely insensitive to the secrecy outage constraint imposed. In addition, we find that 8 feedback bits per transmit antenna is sufficient to achieve approximately 90% of the throughput attainable with perfect feedback.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number7008552
    Pages (from-to)2742-2754
    Number of pages13
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Volume14
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2015

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