Problem
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Enormous Fluid Antenna Systems
Physical Layer Security
Surface-Wave Leakage
Secrecy Outage Probability
Correlated Channels
Enormous Fluid Antenna Systems (E-FAS) under Correlated Surface-Wave Leakage: Physical Layer Security
🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses the physical-layer security challenge in extremely large fluid antenna system (E-FAS) downlink transmissions, where statistical coupling between legitimate and eavesdropper channels arises due to partial overlap of surface wave propagation paths. To tackle this issue, the authors develop a secure transmission framework integrating pilot-based channel estimation, artificial noise (AN) injection, and maximum ratio transmission (MRT). By formulating a correlated surface wave leakage model and employing MMSE estimation within a two-timescale modeling approach, they derive a closed-form conditional expression for secrecy outage probability and a tractable characterization of ergodic secrecy rate. The analysis reveals that AN effectively mitigates secrecy rate saturation at high transmit powers, with optimal power allocation yielding an interior solution. Furthermore, the study elucidates the nonlinear coupling effect of routing gain on both channel estimation accuracy and SINR ceiling. Numerical results demonstrate that E-FAS substantially enlarges the secure operating region compared to conventional space-wave systems.
📝 Abstract
Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a surface-wave (SW)-enabled architecture that can induce controllable large-scale channel gains through guided electromagnetic routing. This paper develops a secrecy analysis framework for E-FAS-assisted downlink transmission with practical pilot-based channel estimation. We consider a multiple-input single-output (MISO) wiretap setting in which the base station (BS) performs minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) channel estimation and adopts maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) with artificial noise (AN). To capture the leakage of SW routing in EFAS, we introduce a correlated SW-leakage model that accounts for statistical coupling between the legitimate and eavesdropper channels caused by partially overlapping SW propagation paths. Exploiting the two-timescale nature-with slowly varying routing gain and small-scale block fading, we then derive a closed-form conditional expression for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and a tractable characterization of the ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) in the presence of correlated quadratic forms. Our analysis yields three key insights: (i) secrecy collapses at high transmit power if and only if AN is not present, whereas any strictly positive AN can prevent asymptotic collapse; (ii) the optimal data-AN power split is achieved by a strictly interior solution; and (iii) routing gain improves both the received signal strength and the channelestimation quality, creating a nonlinear coupling that raises the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) ceiling in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, and disperses secrecy across routing states. Numerical results indicate that E-FAS markedly enlarges the secure operating region significantly when compared with conventional space-wave transmission.
Innovation
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Enormous Fluid Antenna Systems
Surface-Wave Leakage
Physical Layer Security
Artificial Noise
Secrecy Outage Probability
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