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Directional modulation with distributed receiver selection for secure wireless communications

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In this paper, a novel directional modulation with distributed receiver selection (DM-DRS) scheme is proposed for secure wireless communications. In DM-DRS, a particular subset of receivers is activated and part of the information bits are modulated by the index of the activation pattern, in addition to traditional digital modulation. Especially, the scrambling matrix is introduced for the sake of preventing the eavesdropping. Moreover, the performances of bit error rate (BER) in terms of the union bound for both the legitimate user and eavesdropper are respectively derived in the context of an optimal joint maximum likelihood (ML) detector, and the theoretical BER upper bounds are demonstrated to be tight by the numerical results. In the context of the discrete-input and continuous-output system, the ergodic secrecy rates of the legitimate user and the eavesdropper are obtained, the secrecy rate is also quantified. Furthermore, our numerical results exhibit that DM-DRS can achieve an increased transmission rate compared to its traditional directional modulation with cooperative receivers (DM-CR) and spatial and direction modulation (SDM) counterparts, while guaranteeing an improved BER performance.

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This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1800800), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61671131), Project from the Science and Technology on Communication Networks Laboratory, and the 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) (Grant No. 6142104180407).

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    Hongyan Zhang, Yue Xiao, Wanbin Tang, Gang Wu & Hong Niu

  2. Science and Technology on Communication Networks Laboratory, The 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Shijiazhuang, 050081, China

    Xiaotian Zhou

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Zhang, H., Xiao, Y., Tang, W. et al. Directional modulation with distributed receiver selection for secure wireless communications. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 64, 222303 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-020-3048-9

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