Securing Massive MIMO Systems: Secrecy for Free with Low-Complexity Architectures
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Abstract
Passively overheard massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) settings are capable of suppressing eavesdroppers via narrow beamforming towards legitimate receivers. This implies that secrecy is obtained almost for free in these settings. This study shows that this is a valid property for a large class of low-complexity massive MIMO transmitters. The investigations consider two dominant approaches for complexity reduction, namely antenna selection and hybrid analog-digital precoding. It is shown that using either approach, the information leakage per achievable sum-rate vanishes as the number of transmit antennas grows large. The results demonstrate that, as the transmit array size grows large, the normalized information leakage obtained by antenna selection and hybrid analog-digital precoding converges to zero double-logarithmically and logarithmically, respectively. The analytical results are confirmed for various benchmark architectures via numerical simulations.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 9399244 |
Pages (from-to) | 5831-5845 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | IEEE transactions on wireless communications |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 9 |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878264 |
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Keywords
- antenna selection, hybrid analog-digital precoding, massive MIMO systems, Physical layer security