Securing Data Transmission against Multi Cell MIMO Eavesdropper in 5G Wireless Networks using MOSPR

Abstract

The next generation network (5G) promises to offer a wide spectrum of advantages like massive user connections and high mobility. Massive user connection is achieved by incorporating Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO). Securing 5G wireless networks is of greater concern because they are developed with the intention of providing exponentially increasing wireless services where a trillion of legitimate users will be involved. Data transmission in 5G networks has been exposed to various security threats such as eavesdropping, jamming, Denial of Service (DoS) attack and Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack. The above mentioned threats have the ability of affecting the performance of 5G wireless networks since 5G is a major support system for new use cases. Some of the existing mechanisms employed to deal with the security threats are Physical Layer Security (PLS) and cryptography. PLS is preferred since its primary focus is on physical and Media Access Control (MAC) layer where variations in security between wireless and wired networks occur. The existing PLS approach for security against single cell MIMO eavesdropper is Original Symbol Phase Rotated (OSPR) secure transmission scheme where one base station serves the user terminals in a single cell. Our paper implements OSPR for a multi cell MIMO where multiple base stations serve multiple user terminals located in different cells. This architecture will be referred to as Multi cell MIMO Eavesdropping (MME). The efficiency of multi cell OSPR will be compared with Artificial Noise (AN) generation. The extent to which OSPR gives protection against MIMO eavesdropper is measured in terms of Symbol Error Rate (SER). As SER increases, security of data transmission increases. The efficiency of multi cell OSPR over AN is expected to be 8% and it will be verified in simulation using MATLAB.