The Secrecy Capacity Optimization Artificial Noise: A New Type of Artificial Noise for Secure Communication in MIMO System

• Main Authors: Yebo Gu, Zhilu Wu, Zhendong Yin, Xiaojun Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: MIMO; eavesdropping; physical layer security; secrecy capacity; artificial noise; secrecy capacity optimization artificial noise
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8668757/

In multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system, artificial noise (AN) is designed to be aligned into the null space of the legitimate channel so that it has no effect on the legitimate channel. Meanwhile, AN will reduce the secrecy capacity of the eavesdropping channel so that AN increase the secrecy capacity of the wireless communication system. Nevertheless, AN technology only pays attention to the CSI of the legitimate channel but does not pay attention to the CSI of the eavesdropping channel so that the secrecy capacity of the system can be further improved. In this paper, we analyze the performance of traditional AN. A secrecy capacity optimization artificial noise for the whole communication system to further improve the system's secrecy capacity is proposed. The secrecy capacity optimization artificial noise is considered as a kind of artificial noise which is disadvantageous to the legitimate receiver but more disadvantageous to the eavesdropper. Furthermore, we further analyzed the technical details of AN technology and found the key factor affecting the secrecy capacity. Meanwhile, the secrecy capacity optimization artificial noise is effectively designed by applying these conclusions and the key factors of secrecy capacity optimization artificial noise affecting the secrecy capacity of the wireless communication system are described. The analysis and simulation results in practical environments show that the proposed method has a good performance on improving the secrecy capacity.