Enormous Fluid Antenna Systems (E-FAS) under Correlated Surface-Wave Leakage: Physical Layer Security

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Hauptverfasser: Ghadi, Farshad Rostami, Wong, Kai-Kit, Kaveh, Masoud, Ahmadi, Mohammad Javad, Tong, Kin-Fai, Shin, Hyundong
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author Ghadi, Farshad Rostami
Wong, Kai-Kit
Kaveh, Masoud
Ahmadi, Mohammad Javad
Tong, Kin-Fai
Shin, Hyundong
author_facet Ghadi, Farshad Rostami
Wong, Kai-Kit
Kaveh, Masoud
Ahmadi, Mohammad Javad
Tong, Kin-Fai
Shin, Hyundong
contents Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a surface-wave (SW)-enabled architecture that can induce controllable large-scale channel gains through guided electromagnetic routing. This paper develops a secrecy analysis framework for E-FAS-assisted downlink transmission with practical pilot-based channel estimation. We consider a multiple-input single-output (MISO) wiretap setting in which the base station (BS) performs minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) channel estimation and adopts maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) with artificial noise (AN). To capture the leakage of SW routing in EFAS, we introduce a correlated SW-leakage model that accounts for statistical coupling between the legitimate and eavesdropper channels caused by partially overlapping SW propagation paths. Exploiting the two-timescale nature-with slowly varying routing gain and small-scale block fading, we then derive a closed-form conditional expression for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and a tractable characterization of the ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) in the presence of correlated quadratic forms. Our analysis yields three key insights: (i) secrecy collapses at high transmit power if and only if AN is not present, whereas any strictly positive AN can prevent asymptotic collapse; (ii) the optimal data-AN power split is achieved by a strictly interior solution; and (iii) routing gain improves both the received signal strength and the channelestimation quality, creating a nonlinear coupling that raises the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) ceiling in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, and disperses secrecy across routing states. Numerical results indicate that E-FAS markedly enlarges the secure operating region significantly when compared with conventional space-wave transmission.
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spellingShingle Enormous Fluid Antenna Systems (E-FAS) under Correlated Surface-Wave Leakage: Physical Layer Security
Ghadi, Farshad Rostami
Wong, Kai-Kit
Kaveh, Masoud
Ahmadi, Mohammad Javad
Tong, Kin-Fai
Shin, Hyundong
Information Theory
Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a surface-wave (SW)-enabled architecture that can induce controllable large-scale channel gains through guided electromagnetic routing. This paper develops a secrecy analysis framework for E-FAS-assisted downlink transmission with practical pilot-based channel estimation. We consider a multiple-input single-output (MISO) wiretap setting in which the base station (BS) performs minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) channel estimation and adopts maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) with artificial noise (AN). To capture the leakage of SW routing in EFAS, we introduce a correlated SW-leakage model that accounts for statistical coupling between the legitimate and eavesdropper channels caused by partially overlapping SW propagation paths. Exploiting the two-timescale nature-with slowly varying routing gain and small-scale block fading, we then derive a closed-form conditional expression for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and a tractable characterization of the ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) in the presence of correlated quadratic forms. Our analysis yields three key insights: (i) secrecy collapses at high transmit power if and only if AN is not present, whereas any strictly positive AN can prevent asymptotic collapse; (ii) the optimal data-AN power split is achieved by a strictly interior solution; and (iii) routing gain improves both the received signal strength and the channelestimation quality, creating a nonlinear coupling that raises the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) ceiling in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, and disperses secrecy across routing states. Numerical results indicate that E-FAS markedly enlarges the secure operating region significantly when compared with conventional space-wave transmission.
title Enormous Fluid Antenna Systems (E-FAS) under Correlated Surface-Wave Leakage: Physical Layer Security
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25943