A classification of unimodular lattice wiretap codes in small dimensions

• Main Authors: Oggier, Frederique, Lin, Fuchun
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Mathematics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106081; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16616; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2013.2246814
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lattice coding over a Gaussian wiretap channel, where an eavesdropper listens to transmissions between a transmitter and a legitimate receiver, is considered. A new lattice invariant called the secrecy gain is used as a code design criterion for wiretap lattice codes since it was shown to characterize the confusion that a chosen lattice can cause at the eavesdropper: the higher the secrecy gain of the lattice, the more confusion. In this paper, secrecy gains of extremal odd unimodular lattices as well as unimodular lattices in dimension n, 16 ≤ n ≤ 23, are computed, covering the four extremal odd unimodular lattices and all the 111 nonextremal unimodular lattices (both odd and even), providing thus a classification of the best wiretap lattice codes coming from unimodular lattices in dimension n, 8 <; n ≤ 23. Finally, to permit lattice encoding via Construction A, the corresponding error correction codes of the best lattices are determined.