Secure Degrees of Freedom for the MIMO Wire-tap Channel with a Multi-antenna Cooperative Jammer
Mohamed Nafea, Aylin Yener

TL;DR
This paper characterizes the secure degrees of freedom in a MIMO wire-tap channel with a multi-antenna cooperative jammer, providing tight bounds and novel signaling strategies for different antenna configurations.
Contribution
It establishes the secure degrees of freedom for all antenna configurations and introduces new signaling and alignment techniques depending on the integer or non-integer nature of s.d.o.f.
Findings
Tight bounds for secure degrees of freedom across all antenna ranges.
Integer s.d.o.f. achieved with Gaussian signaling and linear processing.
Non-integer s.d.o.f. achieved with structured signaling and joint alignment.
Abstract
In this paper, a multiple antenna wire-tap channel in the presence of a multi-antenna cooperative jammer is studied. In particular, the secure degrees of freedom (s.d.o.f.) of this channel is established, with antennas at the transmitter, antennas at the legitimate receiver, and antennas at the eavesdropper, for all possible values of the number of antennas, , at the cooperative jammer. In establishing the result, several different ranges of need to be considered separately. The lower and upper bounds for these ranges of are derived, and are shown to be tight. The achievability techniques developed rely on a variety of signaling, beamforming, and alignment techniques which vary according to the (relative) number of antennas at each terminal and whether the s.d.o.f. is integer valued. Specifically, it is shown that, whenever the s.d.o.f. is integer…
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