Abstract
The physical layer security (PLS) performance of a wireless communication link through a large reflecting surface (LRS) with phase errors is analyzed. Leveraging recent results that express the LRS-based composite channel as an equivalent scalar fading channel, we show that the eavesdropper's link is Rayleigh distributed and independent of the legitimate link. The different scaling laws of the legitimate and eavesdroppers signal-to-noise ratios with the number of reflecting elements, and the reasonably good performance even in the case of coarse phase quantization, show the great potential of LRS-aided communications to enhance PLS in practical wireless set-ups.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 9219155 |
Journal | I E E E Wireless Communications Letters |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 325-329 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISSN | 2162-2337 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2021 |
Keywords
- Fading channels
- large reflecting surfaces
- phase errors
- physical layer security
- wireless communications