Transmissions over the wiretap channel have been studied for a long time from the information theory standpoint. This has allowed to assess the secrecy performance against eavesdropping while ensuring reliable transmission towards the legitimate receiver. However, most previous studies rely on a number of assumptions which are far from practical wireless communications, like infinite length codewords, random coding, discrete channels or continuous channels with Gaussian signaling. In this paper, we show how the level of security at the physical layer can be assessed from the information theoretic standpoint while taking into account the constraints of practical transmissions over realistic wireless wiretap channels, i.e., by considering practical codes with finite length, discrete modulation formats and continuous channels with fading. For this purpose, we consider the notion of mutual information security, which is provably equivalent to semantic security. Our target is to show that classical and already implemented coding and modulation schemes can be used to achieve some level of security at the physical layer, opposed to approaches resorting to completely new designs tailored to secure transmissions. To corroborate this thesis, we consider some coding and modulation schemes compliant with the IEEE 802.16e (WiMax) standard and show how they can be used to achieve some given security level.

On the security of transmissions over fading wiretap channels in realistic conditions / Baldi, Marco; Senigagliesi, Linda; Chiaraluce, Franco. - ELETTRONICO. - (2017), pp. 4078-4083. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE International Conference on Communications 2017 tenutosi a Paris, France nel 21-25 May 2017) [10.1109/ICC.2017.7996662].

On the security of transmissions over fading wiretap channels in realistic conditions

BALDI, Marco;SENIGAGLIESI, LINDA
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CHIARALUCE, FRANCO
2017-01-01

Abstract

Transmissions over the wiretap channel have been studied for a long time from the information theory standpoint. This has allowed to assess the secrecy performance against eavesdropping while ensuring reliable transmission towards the legitimate receiver. However, most previous studies rely on a number of assumptions which are far from practical wireless communications, like infinite length codewords, random coding, discrete channels or continuous channels with Gaussian signaling. In this paper, we show how the level of security at the physical layer can be assessed from the information theoretic standpoint while taking into account the constraints of practical transmissions over realistic wireless wiretap channels, i.e., by considering practical codes with finite length, discrete modulation formats and continuous channels with fading. For this purpose, we consider the notion of mutual information security, which is provably equivalent to semantic security. Our target is to show that classical and already implemented coding and modulation schemes can be used to achieve some level of security at the physical layer, opposed to approaches resorting to completely new designs tailored to secure transmissions. To corroborate this thesis, we consider some coding and modulation schemes compliant with the IEEE 802.16e (WiMax) standard and show how they can be used to achieve some given security level.
2017
978-1-4673-8999-0
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