Secure On-Off Transmission Design with Channel Estimation Errors

Biao He (ANU)

APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING SERIES

DATE: 2013-07-18
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: RSISE Seminar Room, ground floor, building 115, cnr. North and Daley Roads, ANU
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ABSTRACT:
Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on the ideal assumption of perfect channel knowledge or the capability of variable-rate transmissions. In this work, we study the secure transmission design in more practical scenarios by considering channel estimation errors at the receiver and investigating both fixed-rate and variable-rate transmissions. Under the assumption of quasi-static fading channels, we design secure on-off transmission schemes to maximize the throughput subject to a constraint on secrecy outage probability. For systems with given and fixed encoding rates, we show how the optimal on-off transmission thresholds and the achievable throughput vary with the change in the knowledge of the eavesdropperas channel. In particular, our design covers the interesting case where the eavesdropper also has channel estimation errors. For systems in which the encoding rates are controllable parameters to design, we further derive both a non-adaptive and an adaptive rate transmission schemes by jointly optimizing the encoding rates and the on-off transmission thresholds to maximize the throughput of secure transmissions.