Cooperative beamforming design for physical-layer security of multi-hop MIMO communications

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• 作者：Shiqi Gong ; Chengwen Xing ; Zesong Fei ; Jingming Kuang
• 刊名：SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：59
• 期：6
• 全文大小：411 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
  Information Systems and Communication Service
  
• 出版者：Science China Press, co-published with Springer
• ISSN：1869-1919
• 卷排序：59

文摘

The security issue is critically important for wireless communications, especially for multi-hop communications. In this paper, we propose a cooperative secrecy beamforming scheme for a multi-hop MIMO communication network, in which there is a single-antenna source, multiple multi-antenna relays and a singleantenna destination. Moreover, two types of eavesdroppers exist in the network, one of which has known channel state information (CSI), while the other not. To achieve security communications, in our work null-space beamforming and artificial noise beamforming are jointly optimized to improve the secrecy rate of the multi-hop network. In nature, the joint optimization is nonconvex and challenging. Exploiting its structure, the considered optimization problem is decoupled into a series of subproblems that can be efficiently solved based on convex optimization theory. Finally, some numerical experiment results are provided to assess the performance of the proposed secrecy beamforming design.KeywordsMIMOphysical layer securitymulti-hop networknull-space beamformingartificial noise