Secure Communication in Underlay Cognitive Massive MIMO Systems with Pilot Contamination

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Contributors

  • Hayder Al-Hraishawi - , Southern Illinois University (Author)
  • Gayan Amarasuriya - , Southern Illinois University (Author)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , Technical University of Berlin (Author)

Abstract

In this paper, the detrimental effects of intra-cell pilot contamination for physical layer secure communication in cognitive multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with underlay spectrum sharing are investigated. The channel estimates at the primary base-station (PBS) and secondary base-station are obtained by using non-orthogonal pilot sequences transmitted by the primary user nodes and secondary user nodes, respectively. Hence, these channel estimates are affected by intra-cell pilot contamination. Furthermore, a passive multi-antenna eavesdropper is assumed to be eavesdropping upon either the primary or secondary confidential transmissions. In this context, a physical layer security strategy is provisioned for the primary and secondary transmissions via artificial noise generation at the PBS and zero-forcing precoders. For this system set-up, the average and asymptotic achievable secrecy rate expressions are derived in closed-form, and thereby, the secrecy rate degradation due to intra-cell pilot contamination is quantified. Our analysis reveals that a physical layer secure communication can be provisioned for both primary and secondary massive MIMO systems even with channel estimation errors and pilot contamination.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Place of PublicationSingapore
Pages1-7
Number of pages7
ISBN (electronic)978-1-5090-5019-2
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM)
ISSN1930-529X

Conference

Title2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2017
Duration4 - 8 December 2017
CitySingapore
CountrySingapore

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878321