Optimal Beamforming for Secure Transmit in Practical Wireless Networks

Abstract

In real communication systems, secure and low-energy transmit scheme is very important. So far, most of schemes focus on secure transmit in special scenarios. In this paper, our goal is to propose a secure protocol in wireless networks involved various factors including artificial noise (AN), the imperfect receiver and imperfect channel state information (CSI) of eavesdropper, weight of beamforming (BF) vector, cooperative jammers (CJ), multiple receivers, and multiple eavesdroppers, and the analysis shows that the protocol can reduce the transmission power, and at the same time the safe reachability rate is greater than our pre-defined value, and the analysis results are in good agreement with the simulation results. In this letter, the minimal transmit power is modeled as a non-convexity optimization that is general difficult. Our method is to transform it into a two-level non-convex problem. The outer is a univariate optimization that can be solved by the golden search algorithm. The inner is a convex optimization solved by using the CVX. The solutions are further used to improve the confidentiality rate of the system, and reduce the transmit power of the system and resource consumption in terms of the imperfect CSI. Simulations show the efficiency and robustness of the proposed protocol.