Secure MISO wiretap channels with multi-antenna passive eavesdropper via artificial fast fading

Abstract

We investigate the physical layer security of a multiple-input single-output (MISO) channel in the presence of a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper. Traditionally, artificial noise (AN) scheme is an efficient security strategy without the channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper. In this paper, we propose and analyze an efficient security scheme called the artificial fast fading (AFF) scheme. The basic idea is to randomly weight the information symbols at different transmit antennas in a special manner so that the channel of the intended receiver is an AWGN channel while that of the eavesdropper is a fast fading channel. This prevents the eavesdropper obtaining the CSI using the blind channel estimation techniques so that it can only detect the information symbols in a non-coherent way, which greatly reduces the amount of information intercepted. More importantly, we derive the achievable secrecy rate of the sheme and provide a low bound of it, which can be numerically calculated. Compared with the exact secrecy rate of the AN scheme, even the low bound of the AFF scheme is larger, when the eavesdropper has more antennas than the transmitter.