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IEICE Transactions on Communications

Evaluating Cooperative ARQ Protocols from the Perspective of Physical Layer Security

Lei Wang, Xinrong Guan, Yueming Cai, Weiwei Yang, Wendong Yang

Published Jan 1, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

This work investigates the physical layer security for three cooperative automatic-repeat-request (CARQ) protocols, including the decode-and-forward (DF) CARQ, opportunistic DF (ODF) CARQ, and the distributed space-time code (DSTC) CARQ. Assuming that there is no instantaneous channel state information (CSI) of legitimate users' channel and eavesdropper's channel at the transmitter, the connection outage performance and secrecy outage performance are derived to evaluate the reliability and security of each CARQ protocol. Then, we redefine the concept of the secrecy throughput to evaluate the overall efficiency of the system in terms of maintaining both reliable and secure transmission. Furthermore, through an asymptotic analysis in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, the direct relationship between reliability and security is established via the reliability-security tradeoff (RST). Numerical results verify the analysis and show the efficiency of the CARQ protocols in terms of the improvement on the secrecy throughput. More interestingly, increasing the transmit SNR and the maximum number of transmissions of the ARQ protocols may not achieve a security performance gain. In addition, the RST results underline the importance of determining how to balance the reliability vs. security, and show the superiority of ODF CARQ in terms of RST.

DOI
10.1587/transcom.e98.b.927

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Under the assumption of outdated CSI, the transmission design and secrecy performance in cooperative networks is studied. Using the delay correlation model, the source first estimates the connection outage probability (COP) and secrecy outage probability (SOP), respectively, thus the secrecy information can be encoded into a Wyner code with proper rate pair. If the destination does not decode but the relay does, an opportunistic decode-and-forward (ODF) cooperation would be implemented to help the transmission. Some new insights into the secrecy performance of ODF are provided via the analysis of reliability-security tradeoff (RST) and secrecy throughput.
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