Journal
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 36, Issue 7, Pages 1383-1396Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2825138
Keywords
Millimeter-wave communications; 5G; directional modulation; physical layer security; hybrid MIMO phased-array; antenna subset modulation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61571081]
- Young Top-Notch Talent of the National Ten Thousand Talent Program
- Sichuan Technology Research and Development fund [2015GZ0211]
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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communication system allows a compact antenna array with a large number of colocated elements, which enables flexible array design and beampattern synthesis. However, security is also particularly important but challenging for the fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications, as the broadcasting nature allows any receivers to have a copy of the transmitted signals. In this paper, we propose a hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) phased-array time-modulated directional modulation (DM) scheme for physical layer security in mmWave wireless communications. The hybrid MIMO phased-array enjoys the advantages of MIMO in spatial diversity without sacrificing the main advantage of phased-array in coherent directional gain. The essence is to divide the transmit array into multiple subarrays. Each subarray can be used to form a directional beam, while all subarrays are jointly combined to work as an MIMO for higher angular resolution capabilities. More importantly, a time-modulated DM scheme is applied for the phased-MIMO to achieve physical layer security for mmWave wireless communications, even without the knowledge of the eavesdropper's position information. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is verified by numerical results.
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