Secure communication via sending artificial noise by the receiver: Outage secrecy capacity/region analysis

A novel approach for ensuring confidential wireless communication is proposed and analyzed from an information-theoretic standpoint. In this approach, the legitimate receiver generates artificial noise (AN) to impair the intruder's channel. This method is robust because it does not need the feedback of channel state information (CSI) to the transmitter and does not assume that the number of Eve's antennas should be smaller than that of Bob. Furthermore, we propose a new concept of outage secrecy region to evaluate the secrecy performance from a geometrical perspective. This should be useful if we need to know what zone should be protected (or militarized). Analysis and simulation results in practical environments show that the proposed method has a good performance. © 2012 IEEE.