Phased-Array Transmission for Secure mmWave Wireless Communication via Polygon Construction

• Published in: IEEE transactions on signal processing Vol. 68; pp. 327 - 342
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xuejing, Xia, Xiang-Gen, He, Zishu, Zhang, Xuepan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Antennas; Channels; Computer simulation; Constellations; Eavesdropping; Exact solutions; geometric approach; Millimeter waves; Phase shift keying; phased-array transmission architecture; physical layer security; Polygons; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Receivers; Secure millimeter-wave wireless communication; Signal processing algorithms; Switching circuits; symbol error rate; Synthesis; Target detection; Transmission; Weight; Wireless communication; Wireless communications
• ISSN: 1053-587X; 1941-0476
• DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2019.2944751

This paper presents two secure transmission algorithms for millimeter-wave wireless communication, which are computationally attractive and have analytical solutions. In the proposed algorithms, we consider phased-array transmission structure and focus on phase shift keying (PSK) modulation. It is found that the traditional constellation synthesis problem can be solved with the aid of polygon construction in the complex plane. A detailed analysis is then carried out and an analytical procedure is developed to obtain a qualified phase solution. For a given synthesis task, it is derived that there exist infinite weight vector solutions under a mild condition. Based on this result, we propose the first secure transmission algorithm by varying the transmitting weight vector at symbol rate, thus resulting exact phases at the intended receiver and producing randomnesses at the undesired eavesdroppers. To improve the security without significantly degrading the symbol detection reliability for target receiver, the second secure transmission algorithm is devised by allowing a relaxed symbol region for the intended receiver. Compared to the first algorithm, the second one incorporates an additional random phase rotation operation to the transmitting weight vector and brings extra disturbance for the undesired eavesdroppers. Different from the existing works that are only feasible for the case of single-path mmWave channels, our proposed algorithms are applicable to more general multi-path channels. Moreover, all the antennas are active in the proposed algorithms and the on-off switching circuit is not needed. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectivenesses of the proposed algorithms under various situations.