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MIMO Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Common, Private and Confidential Messages

Information Theory 2019-05-29 v5 math.IT

Abstract

The two-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) with common, private and confidential messages is considered. The transmitter sends a common message to both users, a confidential message to User 1 and a private (non-confidential) message to User 2. The secrecy-capacity region is characterized by showing that certain inner and outer bounds coincide and that the boundary points are achieved by Gaussian inputs, which enables the development of a tight converse. The proof relies on factorization of upper concave envelopes and a variant of dirty-paper coding (DPC). It is shown that the entire region is exhausted by using DPC to cancel out the signal of the non-confidential message at Receiver 1, thus making DPC against the signal of the confidential message unnecessary. A numerical example illustrates the secrecy-capacity results.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06057,
  title  = {MIMO Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Common, Private and Confidential Messages},
  author = {Ziv Goldfeld and Haim H. Permuter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06057},
  year   = {2019}
}