The Secrecy Capacity Region of the Degraded Vector Gaussian Broadcast Channel

TL;DR

This paper determines the maximum secure communication rates for a degraded MIMO Gaussian broadcast channel with confidential messages, using a novel coding scheme and channel enhancement technique.

Contribution

It establishes the capacity region for secure broadcasting in degraded MIMO channels and introduces Secret Superposition Coding as an optimal scheme.

Findings

Capacity region characterized for the scenario.

Secret Superposition Coding proven optimal.

Enhancement approach simplifies outer bound proof.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers via a Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel. A wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal via another MIMO channel. It is assumed that the channels are degraded and the wire-tapper has the worst channel. We establish the capacity region of this scenario. Our achievability scheme is a combination of the superposition of Gaussian codes and randomization within the layers which we will refer to as Secret Superposition Coding. For the outerbound, we use the notion of enhanced channel to show that the secret superposition of Gaussian codes is optimal. It is shown that we only need to enhance the channels of the legitimate receivers, and the channel of the eavesdropper remains unchanged.