Secure Degrees of Freedom of One-hop Wireless Networks with No Eavesdropper CSIT
Pritam Mukherjee, Jianwei Xie, Sennur Ulukus

TL;DR
This paper investigates the impact of lacking eavesdropper's channel state information at transmitters on the secure degrees of freedom in three wireless channel models, showing that in some cases it does not reduce capacity, while in others it causes a reduction.
Contribution
It establishes the optimal secure degrees of freedom for three models without eavesdropper CSIT, revealing when the capacity is unaffected and quantifying the loss when it is.
Findings
Eavesdropper CSIT absence does not reduce s.d.o.f. for the wiretap channel with helpers.
Loss in s.d.o.f. occurs for the multiple access and interference channels without eavesdropper CSIT.
The results indicate robustness of physical layer security to eavesdropper CSIT unavailability at high SNR.
Abstract
We consider three channel models: the wiretap channel with helpers, the -user multiple access wiretap channel, and the -user interference channel with an external eavesdropper, when no eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitters. In each case, we establish the optimal sum secure degrees of freedom (s.d.o.f.) by providing achievable schemes and matching converses. We show that the unavailability of the eavesdropper's CSIT does not reduce the s.d.o.f. of the wiretap channel with helpers. However, there is loss in s.d.o.f. for both the multiple access wiretap channel and the interference channel with an external eavesdropper. In particular, we show that in the absence of eavesdropper's CSIT, the -user multiple access wiretap channel reduces to a wiretap channel with helpers from a sum s.d.o.f. perspective, and the optimal sum…
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