Exploiting Partial Channel State Information for Secrecy over Wireless Channels

In this paper, we investigate the effect of partial channel state information on the achievable secure communication rates and secret-key generation rates over ergodic fading channels. In particular, we establish the strong secret-key capacity as well as lower bounds for the strong secrecy capacity of ergodic and block-ergodic fading channels with partial Channel State Information at the Transmitter(CSIT). Our analysis sheds light on the usefulness of CSIT to harness the benefits of fading for secrecy and allows us to quantify the penalty incurred by the lack of full CSIT. In particular, we numerically illustrate situations in which little CSIT is required to recover most of the benefits of fading and in which the legitimate terminals have an incentive to precisely characterize their channel.

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