Iterative geometric mean decomposition based secure hybrid precoder design for mmWave massive MIMO communication systems

Abstract

Physical layer security (PLS) is one of the major concerns in modern mobile communication systems and has got special attention in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems. The principal objective of this study is to construct a hybrid precoder that can secure the mmWave communication systems by incorporating the finest techniques to obtain a secure precoder and combiner for the legitimate receiver and to ensure minimum information leakage towards illegal-user. In this context, firstly, a traditionally coordinated precoder and combiner design algorithm is exploited in the analog domain to protect the legitimate receiver, and then, iterative geometric mean decompositions (IGMD) scheme is applied to obtain a digital precoder and combiner. Moreover, artificial noise (AN) is also transmitted towards illegal-user that further alleviates the privacy of the system. Finally, we compared our results with our latest proposed algorithm for a secure hybrid precoder system based on the generalized triangular decomposition (GTD) method and a recent algorithm presented in the literature. The simulation studies confirmed that the IGMD based approach considerably degrades the eavesdropping capabilities of the undesired user and provides significantly better secrecy rate performance as much as 3.5 bps/Hz than its counterparts.