On the Equivalence Between Interference and Eavesdropping in Wireless Communications

Author

Gomez, G. ; Lopez-Martinez, F.J. ; Morales-Jimenez, D. ; McKay, M.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Volume

64

Issue

12

fYear

2015

Firstpage

5935

Lastpage

5940

Abstract

We show that the problem of analyzing the outage probability (OP) in cellular systems affected by cochannel interference (CCI) and background noise (BN) is mathematically equivalent to the problem of analyzing the wireless information-theoretic security in terms of the secrecy OP in fading channels. Hence, these both apparently unrelated problems can be addressed by using a common approach. We illustrate the applicability of the connection unveiled herein to provide new results for the secrecy OP in different scenarios.

Keywords

cellular radio; cochannel interference; fading channels; information theory; probability; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; CCI; background noise; cellular system; cochannel interference; fading channel; outage probability analysis problem; secrecy OP; wireless communication eavesdropping; wireless communication interference; wireless information-theoretic security; Antennas; Cellular networks; Interchannel interference; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Cellular systems; co-channel interference; cochannel interference (CCI); outage probability; outage probability (OP); secrecy capacity; wireless information-theoretic security;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2014.2387475

Filename

7001255