Finite-Input Intersymbol Interference Wiretap Channels

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Aria
Nouri
Shahid Beheshti University
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Reza
Asvadi
Shahid Beheshti University
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Jun
Chen
McMaster University
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Pascal
Vontobel
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract

We consider reliable and secure communication over intersymbol interference wiretap channels (ISI-WTCs). In particular, we first examine the setup where the source at the input of an ISI-WTC is unconstrained and then, based on a general achievability result for arbitrary wiretap channels, we derive an achievable secure rate for this ISI-WTC. Afterwards, we examine the setup where the source at the input of an ISI-WTC is constrained to be a finite-state machine source (FSMS) of a certain order and structure. Optimizing the parameters of this FSMS toward maximizing the secure rate is a computationally intractable problem in general, and so, toward finding a local maximum, we propose an iterative algorithm that at every iteration replaces the secure rate function by a suitable surrogate function whose maximum can be found efficiently.

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