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Power-Efficient Deceptive Wireless Beamforming Against Eavesdroppers

Georgios Chrysanidis·Antonios Argyriou·Le-Nam Tran·Yanming Zhang·Yanwei Liu
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Eavesdroppers of wireless signals want to infer as much as possible regarding the transmitter (Tx). Popular methods to minimize information leakage to the eavesdropper include covert communication, directional modulation, and beamforming with nulling. In this paper we do not attempt to prevent information leakage to the eavesdropper like the previous methods. Instead we propose to beamform the wireless signal at the Tx in such a way that it incorporates deceptive information. The beamformed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal includes a deceptive value for the Doppler (velocity) and range of the Tx. To design the optimal baseband waveform with these characteristics, we define and solve an optimization problem for power-efficient deceptive wireless beamforming (DWB). The relaxed convex Quadratic Program (QP) is solved using a heuristic algorithm. Our simulation results indicate that our DWB scheme can successfully inject deceptive information with low power consumption, while preserving the shape of the created beam.

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Georgios Chrysanidis, Antonios Argyriou, Le-Nam Tran, Yanming Zhang, Yanwei Liu. 2025-03-06. Power-Efficient Deceptive Wireless Beamforming Against Eavesdroppers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04599

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