Joint Feedback and Artificial Noise Design for Secure Communications Over Fading Channels Without Eavesdropper's CSI

Abstract

Secure communication with noisy feedback is studied in this correspondence. Unlike the majority of previous research efforts where the eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI)—either instantaneous or statistical CSI, is known by the legitimate users, a joint feedback and artificial noise scheme without any eavesdropper's CSI is proposed. The proposed scheme lets the source and the legitimate destination alternatively transmit private messages and degrade the eavesdropper's channel quality in all transmission phases. An insightful discovery is that if the transmit power is lager than a certain threshold, a positive secrecy capacity can be achieved, which overcomes the problem that the secrecy cannot be achieved when the legitimate user's CSI is worse than the eavesdropper's. The secrecy capacity maximization problem is investigated by adaptive power allocation for the private signals and the artificial noise where a near optimal solution of the power of artificial noise is obtained under the high SNR situation. Finally, the numerical results verify the theoretical analysis and illustrate the secrecy performance of the proposed scheme.