Secrecy Capacity of FBMC-OQAM Modulation over Frequency Selective Channel

Abstract

This paper studies the information-theoretic secrecy capacity of an Offset-QAM-based filterbank multicarrier (FBMC-OQAM) communication over a wiretap frequency selective channel. The secrecy capacity is formulated as an optimization problem which has a closed-form solution in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. Two of the most common equalization strategies in FBMC-OQAM are considered, namely, single-tap and multi-tap equalization. For the sake of comparison, we also consider the secrecy capacity of a generic modulation and a cyclic prefix-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CP-OFDM) modulation. As a result, we find that FBMC-OQAM is particularly competitive for medium-to-long burst transmissions.