Secure wireless multicasting through Nakagami-m fading MISO channel

In the group-oriented applications such as military and commercial wireless cellular networks often require the same data to be conveyed to multiple users simultaneously. This technique is usually referred to as physical layer multicasting. In this paper, we consider the problem of secret communication over Nakagami-m fading multiple-input single-output (MISO) channel, where a single transmitter sends a common and confidential message to a group of receivers in the presence of an eavesdropper. We are interested in protecting this message from eavesdropping. At first, we define the secrecy multicast capacity for a K-receiver multicast channel at which the eavesdropper is unable to decode any information from the multicast channels and find the analytical expression for the lower bound of average secrecy multicast capacity. Then, we define the secrecy multicast capacity in terms of secure outage probability, and find the analytical expressions for the probability of non-zero secrecy multicast capacity and secure outage probability to study the outage behavior of the proposed model.