2013/12/24 by Bin Dai, Dai, Bin, Linman Yu +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Wireless Communication Security Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.6784
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We investigate the effects of an additional relay node on the secrecy of broadcast channels by considering the model of relay broadcast channels with confidential messages. We show that this additional relay node can increase the achievable secrecy rate region of the broadcast channels with confidential messages. More specifically, first, we investigate the discrete memoryless relay broadcast channels with two confidential messages and one common message. Three inner bounds (with respect to decode-forward, generalized noise-forward and compress-forward strategies) and an outer bound on the capacity-equivocation region are provided. Second, we investigate the discrete memoryless relay broadcast channels with two confidential messages. Inner and outer bounds on the capacity-equivocation region are provided. Finally, we investigate the discrete memoryless relay broadcast channels with one confidential message and one common message. Inner and outer bounds on the capacity-equivocation region are provided, and the results are further explained via a Gaussian example. Compared with Csiszar-Korner's work on broadcast channels with confidential messages (BCC), we find that with the help of the relay node, the secrecy capacity region of the Gaussian BCC is enhanced.