Secrecy capacity with leakage constraints in fading channels

The secure transmission of information over wireless systems in the presence of an eavesdropper has attracted much attention. In this paper, we consider the case that full CSI of the legitimate user but only the average channel gain of the eavesdropper is known at the transmitter. In such setting, some information will be inevitably leaked to the eavesdropper from the information-theoretic view and this was not quantitatively evaluated before. A secrecy transmission framework with leakage threshold is thereby proposed. The secrecy capacity satisfying this leakage probability constraints is derived along with an optimal power allocation strategy. For Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading channels, numerical results indicate that our framework can work well with transmitter knowledge of only average channel gain of the eavesdropper. ©2010 IEEE