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ZTE Communications ›› 2013, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (3): 26-32.DOI: DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2013.03.004

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An Introduction to Transmit Antenna Selection in MIMOWiretap Channels

Nan Yang1, Maged Elkashlan2, Phee Lep Yeoh3, and Jinhong Yuan1   

  1. 1. The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia;
    2. Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;
    3. The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
  • Received:2013-08-14 Online:2013-09-25 Published:2013-09-25
  • About author:Nan Yang (nan.yang@unsw.edu.au) received his PhD degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, he was a visiting PhD student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Australia. From 2010 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the CSIRO Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Australia. He joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, in 2012 and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow there. He has published more than 40 papers in IEEE journals and conference proceedings. He co-authored three papers that won Best Paper Awards in IEEE VTC 2013 Spring. His research interests include communications theory and signal processing, specifically, cooperative communications, MIMO systems, resource allocation, and physical layer security.

    Maged Elkashlan (maged.elkashlan@eecs.qmul.ac.uk) received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, he was with the Laboratory for Advanced Networking, University of British Columbia. From 2007 to 2011, he worked at the CSIRO Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Australia. From 2008-2011, he also held an adjunct position at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2011, he joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University, London. He also holds visiting faculty appointments at the University of New South Wales, Australia; and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has co-authored three papers that won Best Paper Awards in IEEE VTC 2013 Spring. His research interests include distributed wireless networks, cooperative wireless networks, MIMO systems, cognitive radio, and physical layer security. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for several IEEE conferences, including IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) and IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).

    Phee Lep Yeoh (phee.yeoh@unimelb.edu.au) received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, he worked at the Telecommunications Laboratory at the University of Sydney and the CSIRO Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Sydney. In 2012, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. He won Best Paper award at IEEE VTC-Spring 2013 and Best Student Paper award at IEEE AusCTW 2013. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for international IEEE conferences, including GLOBECOM, ICC, and VTC. His research interests include cooperative communications, MIMO, cross-layer optimization, and physical layer security.

    Jinhong Yuan (j.yuan@unsw.edu.au) received his BE and PhD degrees in electronics engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, in 1991 and 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he was a research fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2000, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and is currently a professor of telecommunications at that school. He has published two books, two book chapters, more than 200 papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings, and 40 industry reports. He is a co-inventor of one patent on MIMO systems and two patents on low-density-parity-check (LDPC) codes. He co-authored three papers that have won Best Paper awards and one Best Poster award. His publications are available at http://www2.ee.unsw.edu.au/wcl/JYuan.html. He is currently the chair of the IEEE NSW Chair of joint Communications/Signal Processions/Ocean Engineering Chapter and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications . His research interests include error control coding and information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications.

An Introduction to Transmit Antenna Selection in MIMOWiretap Channels

Nan Yang1, Maged Elkashlan2, Phee Lep Yeoh3, and Jinhong Yuan1   

  1. 1. The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia;
    2. Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;
    3. The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
  • 作者简介:Nan Yang (nan.yang@unsw.edu.au) received his PhD degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010. From 2008 to 2010, he was a visiting PhD student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Australia. From 2010 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the CSIRO Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Australia. He joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, in 2012 and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow there. He has published more than 40 papers in IEEE journals and conference proceedings. He co-authored three papers that won Best Paper Awards in IEEE VTC 2013 Spring. His research interests include communications theory and signal processing, specifically, cooperative communications, MIMO systems, resource allocation, and physical layer security.

    Maged Elkashlan (maged.elkashlan@eecs.qmul.ac.uk) received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, he was with the Laboratory for Advanced Networking, University of British Columbia. From 2007 to 2011, he worked at the CSIRO Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Australia. From 2008-2011, he also held an adjunct position at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2011, he joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University, London. He also holds visiting faculty appointments at the University of New South Wales, Australia; and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has co-authored three papers that won Best Paper Awards in IEEE VTC 2013 Spring. His research interests include distributed wireless networks, cooperative wireless networks, MIMO systems, cognitive radio, and physical layer security. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for several IEEE conferences, including IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) and IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).

    Phee Lep Yeoh (phee.yeoh@unimelb.edu.au) received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, he worked at the Telecommunications Laboratory at the University of Sydney and the CSIRO Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Sydney. In 2012, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. He won Best Paper award at IEEE VTC-Spring 2013 and Best Student Paper award at IEEE AusCTW 2013. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for international IEEE conferences, including GLOBECOM, ICC, and VTC. His research interests include cooperative communications, MIMO, cross-layer optimization, and physical layer security.

    Jinhong Yuan (j.yuan@unsw.edu.au) received his BE and PhD degrees in electronics engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, in 1991 and 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he was a research fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2000, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and is currently a professor of telecommunications at that school. He has published two books, two book chapters, more than 200 papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings, and 40 industry reports. He is a co-inventor of one patent on MIMO systems and two patents on low-density-parity-check (LDPC) codes. He co-authored three papers that have won Best Paper awards and one Best Poster award. His publications are available at http://www2.ee.unsw.edu.au/wcl/JYuan.html. He is currently the chair of the IEEE NSW Chair of joint Communications/Signal Processions/Ocean Engineering Chapter and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications . His research interests include error control coding and information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications.

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Abstract: This paper is a survey of transmit antenna selection—a low-complexity, energy-efficient method for improving physical layer security in multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. With this method, a single antenna out of multiple antennas is selected at the transmitter. We review a general analytical framework for analyzing exact and asymptotic secrecy of transmit antenna selection with receive maximal ratio combining, selection combining, or generalized selection combining. The analytical results prove that secrecy is significantly improved when the number of transmit antennas increases.

Key words: physical layer security, transmit antenna selection, secrecy outage probability, wireless fading

摘要： This paper is a survey of transmit antenna selection—a low-complexity, energy-efficient method for improving physical layer security in multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. With this method, a single antenna out of multiple antennas is selected at the transmitter. We review a general analytical framework for analyzing exact and asymptotic secrecy of transmit antenna selection with receive maximal ratio combining, selection combining, or generalized selection combining. The analytical results prove that secrecy is significantly improved when the number of transmit antennas increases.

关键词: physical layer security, transmit antenna selection, secrecy outage probability, wireless fading