Title :
Confidential messages to a cooperative relay
Author :
Bloch, Matthieu ; Thangaraj, Andrew
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
Abstract :
We extend the broadcast channel with confidential messages to the situation where the receiver of the secret message also serves as a relay. We analyze the fundamental cooperation versus secrecy trade-offs for discrete memoryless channels and obtain the exact rate-equivocation region in this case. For the Gaussian channel, we consider various strategies leading to different levels of secrecy. Our study highlights the fundamental role of jamming as a means to increase secrecy rates, but also emphasizes the importance of carefully designed relaying strategies.
Keywords :
Gaussian channels; broadcast channels; jamming; memoryless systems; Gaussian channel; broadcast channel; confidential message; cooperative relay; discrete memoryless channel; jamming; rate-equivocation region; Broadcast technology; Broadcasting; Cryptography; Gaussian channels; Jamming; Memoryless systems; Physical layer; Relays; Security; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Workshop, 2008. ITW '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Porto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2269-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2271-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITW.2008.4578641