Optimal Transmit Antenna Selection for Massive MIMO Wiretap Channels
Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Amir M. Rabiei, Ralf R. M\"uller and, Rafael F. Schaefer

TL;DR
This paper analyzes how selecting a subset of transmit antennas in massive MIMO wiretap channels affects secrecy, revealing an optimal number of antennas that maximizes security performance.
Contribution
It provides an analytical framework for determining the optimal number of active antennas to enhance secrecy in massive MIMO systems with antenna selection.
Findings
Secrecy rate increases with the number of antennas up to an optimal point.
Beyond the optimal number, increasing antennas degrades secrecy performance.
Analytical results closely match numerical simulations.
Abstract
In this paper, we study the impacts of transmit antenna selection on the secrecy performance of massive MIMO systems. We consider a wiretap setting in which a fixed number of transmit antennas are selected and then confidential messages are transmitted over them to a multi-antenna legitimate receiver while being overheard by a multi-antenna eavesdropper. For this setup, we derive an accurate approximation of the instantaneous secrecy rate. Using this approximation, it is shown that in some wiretap settings under antenna selection the growth in the number of active antennas enhances the secrecy performance of the system up to some optimal number and degrades it when this optimal number is surpassed. This observation demonstrates that antenna selection in some massive MIMO settings not only reduces the RF-complexity, but also enhances the secrecy performance. We then consider various…
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