Orthogonally Polarized Dual-Channel Directional Modulation Based on Crossed-Dipole Arrays

Abstract

Directional modulation (DM) as a physical layer security technique has been studied based on the traditional antenna arrays; however, in most of the designs, only one signal is transmitted at one carrier frequency. In this paper, signal polarization information is exploited, and a new DM scheme is designed, which can transmit a pair of orthogonally polarized signals to the same direction at the same frequency simultaneously, resulting in doubled channel capacity. These two signals can also be considered as one composite signal using a four-dimensional (4-D) modulation scheme across the two polarization diversity channels. Moreover, compressive sensing (CS)-based formulations for designing sparse crossed-dipole arrays in this context are proposed to exploit the degrees of freedom in the spatial domain for further improved performance, as demonstrated by various design examples.