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IEEE Transactions on Communications

Opportunistic Relay Selection for Secrecy Enhancement in Cooperative Networks

Fawaz S. Al‐Qahtani, Caijun Zhong, Hussein Alnuweiri

Published Mar 13, 2015• 98 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we present a comprehensive investigation on the secrecy performance of opportunistic relay selection systems employing the decode-and-forward protocol over Rayleigh fading channels. Considering a practical setting where direct link between the source node (Alice) and the destination node (Bob) is available, we study the secrecy performance of three different diversity combining schemes, namely, maximum ratio combining (MRC), distributed selection combining (DSC), and distributed switch-and-stay combining (DSSC). Throughout the analysis, we consider two different scenarios based on the availability of the eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI), i.e., Scenario A, where the eavesdropper's CSI is not available at Alice and the relay, and Scenario B, where Alice and the relay have knowledge about the eavesdropper's CSI. For Scenario A, we derive exact closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability and simple asymptotic approximations for the secrecy outage probability, which enable the characterization of the achievable secrecy diversity order and coding gains. For Scenario B, we derive closed-form expressions for the achievable secrecy rates. For both scenarios, we investigate the impact of feedback delay (outdated CSI) on the secrecy performance wherein exact and asymptotic secrecy outage probability and closed-form expressions of the secrecy achievable rates are obtained. Our analytical findings suggest that both the MRC and DSC schemes achieve the maximum diversity order of K+1 where K is the number of relays. In addition, the feedback delay has a significant impact on the achievable secrecy performance by reducing the achievable diversity order to two.

DOI
10.1109/tcomm.2015.2412939

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In this paper, a source communicates to the destination with the cooperation of a relay, in the presence of an eavesdropper. All the links undergo Rayleigh fading and perfect decoding at the relays is not considered. The secrecy outage probability expression is evaluated for a decode-and-forward (DF) dual-hop cooperative relay network, both with and without the presence of direct source to eavesdropper transmission link. The performance of the maximal ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining (SC) diversity at the eavesdropper is investigated. Asymptotic and diversity gain analysis for both the single relay and multi-relay system is obtained, when average SNRs of source-relay and relay-destination links are balanced or unbalanced. We have shown that the increase in target secrecy rate and eavesdropper channel quality significantly affects the outage performance of the system. We have investigated the outage probability of optimal relay selection scheme, when either full instantaneous channel state information (ICSI) or statistical channel state information (SCSI) of all the links is available and have shown that there is improvement in the secrecy performance with the increase in the number of relays.
In this paper, secrecy outage probability is analyzed in a cooperative network for an independent but non-identically distributed (i.n.i.d) Rayleigh fading channel. By using multi-trusted decode and forward relays, the model assumes direct links between a sender (Alice) and receiver nodes (Bob and an eavesdropper). The protocol employed herein selects the best relay with the highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in relation to the destination (Bob). The eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is neither available to the sender nor to the best relay, while maximum ratio combining (MRC) is employed at Bob and the eavesdropper. Finally, the theoretical analysis is validated through simulation, and the results show that performance is enhanced with an increasing number of relays in the event of a direct link between the sender and the receiver's terminals.
This paper investigates secure cooperative transmissions in a dual-hop MIMO relay system using a combined transmit antenna selection (TAS) and maximal-ratio combining (MRC) scheme over the Nakagami-m fading channels, where an adaptive decode-and-forward relaying protocol and an multi-antenna eavesdropper are considered. Due to the feedback delay, channel state information (CSI) for TAS might be outdated at both the source and the relay. To evaluate the secrecy performance of the TAS/MRC scheme and the impacts of outdated CSI, the closed-form expressions for the metrics of exact ergodic secrecy rate and exact secrecy outage probability are derived under both perfect and outdated CSI conditions in a channel feedback error model. In order to explicitly reveal the behaviors of the secrecy performance in high signal-to-noise ratio regime, asymptotic expressions for both the metrics are further derived. As validated by simulation results, analytically numerical results demonstrate that outdated the CSI always results in a loss in the secrecy performance, but the loss can be recovered by increasing the number of antennas at legitimate receivers. Furthermore, the outdated CSI yields a reduced secrecy diversity order, whereas only the perfect CSI leads to the full secrecy diversity order.
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This paper considers secrecy of a three node cooperative wireless system in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. The threshold-selection decode-and-forward relay is considered, which can decode the source message correctly only if a predefined signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is achieved. The effects of channel state information (CSI) availability on secrecy outage probability (SOP) and ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) are investigated, and closed-form expressions are derived. Diversity is achieved from the direct and relaying paths both at the destination and at the eavesdropper by combinations of maximal-ratio combining and selection combining schemes. An asymptotic analysis is provided when each hop SNR is the same in the balanced case and when it is different in the unbalanced case. The analysis shows that both hops can be a bottleneck for secure communication; however, they do not affect the secrecy identically. While it is observed that CSI knowledge can improve secrecy, the amount of improvement for SOP is more when the required rate is low and for ESR when the operating SNR is also low. It is also shown that the source to eavesdropper link SNR is more crucial for secure communication.
Opportunistic relay selection is an important approach to enhance physical layer secrecy of relaying networks, but that severely depends on the obtained CSIs. In this letter, we study the impact of limited CSI feedback on the secrecy performance of cooperative decode-and-forward (DF) relay networks with opportunistic relay selection. We first derive the exact closed-form expression for the secrecy outage probability (SOP), and the asymptotic expression for SOP in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region. Then, based on the derived expressions, we evaluate the impact of limited CSI feeback on secrecy outage probability and secrecy diversity order. Numerical results show that the secrecy diversity order is 2, regardless of the number of feedback bits. However, increasing the number of feedback bits can improve the secrecy outage performance.