Secrecy Capacity Scaling in Large Cooperative Wireless Networks

• We investigate large wireless networks subject to security constraints. In contrast to point-to-point, interference-limited communications considered in prior works, we propose active cooperative relaying-based schemes. We consider a network with n(l) legitimate nodes, n(e) eavesdroppers, and path loss exponent alpha >= 2. As long as n(e)(2)(log(n(e))(gamma) = o(n(l)), for some positive gamma, we show that one can obtain unbounded secure aggregate rate. This means zero-cost secure communication, given fixed total power constraint for the entire network. We achieve this result through: 1) the source using Wyner randomized encoder and a serial ( multi-stage) block Markov scheme, to cooperate with the relays and 2) the relays acting as a virtual multi-antenna to apply beamforming against the eavesdroppers. Our simpler parallel ( two-stage) relaying scheme can achieve the same unbounded secure aggregate rate when n(e)(alpha/2+1) (log(n(e))(gamma+delta(alpha/2+1)) = o(n(l)) holds, for some positive gamma, delta. Finally, we study the improvement (to the detriment of legitimate nodes) that the eavesdroppers achieve in terms of the information leakage rate in a large cooperative network in the case of collusion. We show that again the zero-cost secure communication is possible, if n(e)((2+2/alpha)) (log n(e))(gamma) = o(n(l)) holds, for some positive gamma; that is, in the case of collusion slightly fewer eavesdroppers can be tolerated compared with the non-colluding case.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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Secrecy capacity

scaling laws

cooperative strategies

relaying

large wireless networks

information-theoretic security

colluding eavesdroppers

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