Wireless Physical Layer Security with Imperfect Channel State Information: A Survey

2013/07/16 by He, Biao, Zhou, Xiangyun, Abhayapala, Thushara D.
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.4146

Abstract

Physical layer security is an emerging technique to improve the wireless communication security, which is widely regarded as a complement to cryptographic technologies. To design physical layer security techniques under practical scenarios, the uncertainty and imperfections in the channel knowledge need to be taken into consideration. This paper provides a survey of recent research and development in physical layer security considering the imperfect channel state information (CSI) at communication nodes. We first present an overview of the main information-theoretic measures of the secrecy performance with imperfect CSI. Then, we describe several signal processing enhancements in secure transmission designs, such as secure on-off transmission, beamforming with artificial noise, and secure communication assisted by relay nodes or in cognitive radio systems. The recent studies of physical layer security in large-scale decentralized wireless networks are also summarized. Finally, the open problems for the on-going and future research are discussed.

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