Wireless Secrecy Regions With Friendly Jamming

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

J. P. Vilela (Author) Other; M. Bloch (Author) Other; J. Barros (Author) FEUP; S. W. McLaughlin (Author) Other

Journal

Title: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Vol. 6 No. 2

Pages: 256-266

ISSN: 1556-6013

Publisher: IEEE

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 131 Citations

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 152 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-R1Z

DOI: 10.1109/tifs.2011.2111370

Abstract (EN): Inspired by recent results on information-theoretic security, we consider the transmission of confidential messages over wireless networks, in which the legitimate communication partners are aided by friendly jammers. We characterize the security level of a confined region in a quasi-static fading environment by computing the probability of secrecy outage in connection with two new measures of physical-layer security: the jamming coverage and the jamming efficiency. Our analysis for various jamming strategies based on different levels of channel state information provides insight into the design of optimal jamming configurations and shows that a single jammer is not sufficient to maximize both figures of merit simultaneously. Moreover, a single jammer requires full channel state information to provide security gains in the vicinity of the legitimate receiver.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11