Randomized turbo codes for the wiretap channel

Abstract

We study application of parallel and serially concatenated convolutional codes known as turbo codes to the randomized encoding scheme introduced by Wyner for physical layer security. For this purpose, we first study how randomized convolutional codes can be constructed. Then, we use them as building blocks for developing randomized turbo codes. We also develop iterative low-complexity decoders corresponding to the randomized schemes introduced and evaluate the code performance. We demonstrate via several examples that the newly designed schemes can outperform other existing coding methods in the literature (e.g., punctured low density parity check (LDPC) and scrambled BCH codes) in terms of the resulting security gap.