The secrecy capacity region of the degraded vector Gaussian broadcast channel

  • Authors:

  • Ghadamali Bagherikaram;Abolfazl S. Motahari;Amir K. Khandani

  • Affiliations:

  • Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario;Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario;Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

  • Venue:
  • ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 4
  • Year:
  • 2009

  • Compound wiretap channels

    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on wireless physical layer security

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers via a Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel. A wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal via another MIMO channel. It is assumed that the channels are degraded and the wire-tapper has the worst channel. We establish the capacity region of this scenario. Our achievability scheme is a combination of the superposition of Gaussian codes and randomization within the layers which we will refer to as Secret Superposition Coding. For the outerbound, we use the notion of enhanced channel to show that the secret superposition of Gaussian codes is optimal. It is shown that we only need to enhance the channels of the legitimate receivers, and the channel of the eavesdropper remains unchanged.