A note on the secrecy capacity of the multiple-antenna wiretap channel

  • Authors:
  • Tie Liu;Shlomo Shamai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The secrecy capacity of the multiple-antenna wiretap channel under the average total power constraint was recently characterized, independently, by Khisti and Wornell and Oggier and Hassibi using a Sato-like argument and matrix analysis tools. This paper presents an alternative characterization of the secrecy capacity of the multiple-antenna wiretap channel under a more general matrix constraint on the channel input using a channel-enhancement argument. This characterization is by nature information-theoretic and is directly built on the intuition regarding to the optimal transmission strategy in this communication scenario.