TY - GEN
T1 - On the secure degrees-of-freedom of partially connected networks with no CSIT
AU - Attia, Mohamed Adel
AU - Tandon, Ravi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NSF Grant CCF 1559758.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/28
Y1 - 2017/7/28
N2 - In this work, we focus on the partially connected interference network with confidential messages, and study the secure degrees of freedom with no channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT). Prior works on fully connected interference networks with full CSIT have shown that the secure degrees of freedom scales linearly with the number of users. With no CSIT, however, the secure degrees of freedom of fully connected networks collapses to zero. In this work, we show that partial connectivity, a widely prevalent property of wireless networks, can be leveraged to provide secrecy even with no CSIT. We present a systematic approach to first understand the feasibility of secure communication in a partially connected network and develop achievable schemes for a class of regular partially connected networks. Finally, we also provide novel information theoretic outer bounds on the secure degrees of freedom for this class of regular partially connected networks, and approximately characterize the secure degrees of freedom.
AB - In this work, we focus on the partially connected interference network with confidential messages, and study the secure degrees of freedom with no channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT). Prior works on fully connected interference networks with full CSIT have shown that the secure degrees of freedom scales linearly with the number of users. With no CSIT, however, the secure degrees of freedom of fully connected networks collapses to zero. In this work, we show that partial connectivity, a widely prevalent property of wireless networks, can be leveraged to provide secrecy even with no CSIT. We present a systematic approach to first understand the feasibility of secure communication in a partially connected network and develop achievable schemes for a class of regular partially connected networks. Finally, we also provide novel information theoretic outer bounds on the secure degrees of freedom for this class of regular partially connected networks, and approximately characterize the secure degrees of freedom.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996418
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996418
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85028359000
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017
A2 - Debbah, Merouane
A2 - Gesbert, David
A2 - Mellouk, Abdelhamid
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017
Y2 - 21 May 2017 through 25 May 2017
ER -