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H. Alves, M. De Castro Tomé, P. H. J. Nardelli, C. H. M. De Lima and M. Latva-Aho, "Enhanced Transmit Antenna Selection Scheme for Secure Throughput Maximization Without CSI at the Transmitter," in IEEE Access, vol. 4, no., pp. 4861-4873, 2016. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2601629

Enhanced transmit antenna selection scheme for secure throughput maximization without CSI at the transmitter

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Author: Alves, Hirley1; De Castro Tomé, Mauricio1; Juliano Nardelli, Pedro Henrique1;
Organizations: 1Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
2São Paulo State University (UNESP), São João da Boa Vista, Brazil
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.6 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201701311391
Language: English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016
Publish Date: 2017-01-31
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Abstract

This paper addresses the establishment of secure communication links between Alice and Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). The proposed scenario assumes: 1) MIMOME wiretap channel; 2) transmit antenna selection at the Alice; 3) no channel state information at the transmitter; 4) fixed Wyner codes; and 5) guarantee of secure throughput by both quality of service and secrecy outage constraints. We propose a simple protocol to enhance security via transmit antenna selection, and then assess its performance in a closed form by means of secrecy outage and successful transmission probabilities. We assume these probabilities are our constraints and then maximize the secure throughput, establishing a security-reliability tradeoff for the proposed scenario. Our numerical results illustrate the effect of this tradeoff on the secure throughput as well as on the number of antennas at Alice, Bob, and Eve. Interestingly, a small sacrifice in reliability allows secrecy enhancement in terms of secure bps/Hz. We apply this idea in our smart grid application (where Alice represents a smart meter and Bob an aggregator) to exemplify that, although Eve may acquire some samples of the average power demand of a household, it is not enough to properly reconstruct such curve.

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Series: IEEE access
ISSN: 2169-3536
ISSN-E: 2169-3536
ISSN-L: 2169-3536
Volume: 4
Pages: 4861 - 4873
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2601629
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2601629
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
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Funding: AKA Project SAFE Grant 303532 Strategic Research Council/Aka BCDC Project Grant 292854, Aka and CNPq/Brazil Project SUSTAIN Grant 490235/2012-3.
Academy of Finland Grant Number: 303532
292854
Detailed Information: 303532 (Academy of Finland Funding decision)
292854 (Academy of Finland Funding decision)
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