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Secure TDD MIMO Networks Against Training Sequence Based Eavesdropping Attack

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Yunlong Mao *
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Ying He
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Yuan Zhang
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Jingyu Hua
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Sheng Zhong
DOI:10.1109/TMC.2019.2937081delete
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Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) has attracted much attention due to its significant advantage of increasing the utilization ratio of wireless channels. However, Frequency-Division Duplex (FDD) systems are vulnerable to eavesdropping, since the explicit CSI feedback can be manipulated. In this paper, we show that Time-Division Duplex (TDD) systems are insecure as well. In particular, we show that it is possible to eavesdrop on other users' downloads by tuning training sequences. In order to defend MU-MIMO against such threats, we propose a secure CSI estimation scheme, which can provide correct estimates of CSI when adversarial users are in presence. We prove that our scheme is secure against training sequence based eavesdropping attack. We have implemented our scheme for TDD MU-MIMO systems and performed a series of experiments. Results demonstrate that our secure CSI estimation scheme is highly effective in protecting TDD MIMO networks against eavesdropping attack. Furthermore, we extend our scheme to support massive MU-MIMO networks, with a carefully redesigned uplink protocol and optimized power allocation to achieve higher spectral efficiency. To be more practical, we also take mismatch channel issue into our consideration. An enhancement scheme is proposed and we show that our scheme with enhancement is secure and correct under mismatch channel.
Keywords:
MU-MIMO
time-division duplex
channel state information
eavesdropping attack
security
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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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