Physical layer security for massive MIMO: An overview on passive eavesdropping and active attacks
By Dževdan Kapetanović, Gan Zheng, Fredrik Rusek. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015
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This article discusses opportunities and challenges of physical layer security integration in MaMIMO systems. Specifically, we first show that MaMIMO itself is robust against passive eavesdropping attacks. We then review a pilot contamination scheme that actively attacks the channel estimation process. This pilot contamination attack not only dramatically reduces the achievable secrecy capacity but is also difficult to detect. We proceed by reviewing some methods from literature that detect active attacks on MaMIMO. The last part of the article surveys the open research problems that we believe are the most important to address in the future and give a few promising directions of research to solve them.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, background): “active eavesdropper are presented in [184].”
- Massive MIMO Detection Techniques: A Survey (2019, background): “However, the eavesdropper can take countermeasures by exploiting the high channel correlation in the vicinity of the user or the weakness of channel estimation [28].”
- Physical Layer Security for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Theories, Technologies, and Challenges (2017, background): “This attack was investigated in [163] and [168], which wants to send jamming signals to minimize secrecy capacities.”
- Physical-Layer Security of 5G Wireless Networks for IoT: Challenges and Opportunities (2019, methodology): “[8] investigated the passive eavesdropping and active attacks in massive MIMO.”
- A Survey on Multiple-Antenna Techniques for Physical Layer Security (2017, background): “In particular, multiple-antenna relaying [24], [25], multipleantenna jamming [26], [27], multiuser downlink or multiple access [28], [29], massive MIMO [30], [31], and multipleantenna directional modulation [32]–[35], are exploited to improve the secrecy performance.”