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Background on Information-Theoretic Physical Layer Secrecy

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Signal Processing Approaches to Secure Physical Layer Communications in Multi-Antenna Wireless Systems

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This chapter provides a brief overview of information-theoretic physical layer secrecy, including the fundamental limits and the key aspects that may affect the secrecy performance. The measure of secrecy as well as the notions of secrecy capacity and secrecy outage probability are introduced. Explicit expressions for the secrecy capacity and the secrecy outage probability are given for certain scenarios. These results motivate the development of the signal processing techniques to be introduced in later chapters.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Y.-W. Peter Hong

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Ave., Room EEB B10, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-2564, USA

    Pang-Chang Lan

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Building 3740 McClintock Ave., Room EEB 400, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-2564, USA

    C.-C. Jay Kuo

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Hong, YW.P., Lan, PC., Kuo, CC.J. (2014). Background on Information-Theoretic Physical Layer Secrecy. In: Signal Processing Approaches to Secure Physical Layer Communications in Multi-Antenna Wireless Systems. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-14-6_2

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