In a secure communication using artificial nose, the artificial noise in a received signal is canceled out, as described above, at a destination node, and the artificial noise remains in a received signal at another terminal device. Hence, it is difficult for the other terminal device to recover data from the received signal.
However, when the number of reception antennas of an interception node is larger than the number of transmission antennas of the source node, the interception node could separate an artificial noise series from a received signal without recognizing a signal combining scheme based on precoding performed by the source node (e.g., non-patent document 2). In this case, the interception node could recover data.