Electrical Engineering and Systems Science > Systems and Control
[Submitted on 6 Aug 2024]
Title:Practical Design of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping for Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communications
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:This paper studies a practical design of probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) for physical layer security in visible light communications (VLC). In particular, we consider a wiretap VLC channel employing a probabilistically shaped $M$-ary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) constellation. Considering the requirements for reliability of the legitimate user's channel, flickering-free transmission, and symmetric constellation distribution, the optimal constellation distributions to maximize modulation-constrained secrecy capacity or the bit error rate (BER) of eavesdropper's channel are investigated for both scenarios of known and unknown eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI). To formulate the constraint on the channel reliability, tractable closed-form expressions for the upper bound and approximate BER of $M$-ary PAM under an arbitrary symbol probability are derived. The design problem is shown to be non-convex due to the non-convex BER constraint. By proving that the upper bound BER is a concave function of the constellation distribution, a suboptimal solution based on the convex-concave procedure (CCCP) is presented. Our findings reveal that while the uniform signaling can only satisfy the BER constraint when the optical power is beyond a certain value, the proposed PCS design works in the entire region of the optical power. Some insights into the optimal constellation distribution with respect to the emitted optical power are also discussed.
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