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Directional Modulation Using Frequency Diverse Array For Secure Communications

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In this paper, to obtain a better physical layer security for wireless communications, a directional modulation (DM) using frequency diverse array (FDA) is proposed. Different from the traditional directional modulation that achieves only angle dependent directional modulation, our proposed scheme achieves DM in both angle and range dimensions. The transmitted signal symbols only could be recovered successfully at the desired receiver, while they are distorted to be unrecoverable at the undesired receivers. Therefore, it will increases the security of data transmission to against the eavesdroppers. This FDA-based DM scheme can be potentially applied in the point-to-point security communications and the effectiveness is validated by numerical results.

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The work described in this paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61571081, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant NCET-12-0095 and Sichuan Province Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant 2013JQ0003.

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    Jie Xiong, Shaddrack Yaw Nusenu & Wen-Qin Wang

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Xiong, J., Nusenu, S.Y. & Wang, WQ. Directional Modulation Using Frequency Diverse Array For Secure Communications. Wireless Pers Commun 95, 2679–2689 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-3949-1

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