Enhanced Physical-Layer Security through Joint Transmit Antenna Selection and Artificial Noise

In this paper, an enhanced physical layer security communication scheme is proposed for the multiple antenna systems. The scheme employing transmit antenna selection and artificial noise, also Alamouti coding, improved diversity gain in legitimate channel with low complexity in the transmitter and receiver, and at the same time efficiently jammed the wiretap channel. Consequently it can increase the system secrecy capacity. We analyze the system secrecy capacity and the impacts of the number of antennas and the power allocation between the information signal and artificial noise. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can effectively enhance the physical layer security.