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Improve physical layer security in cooperative wireless network using distributed auction games

Rongqing Zhang, Lingyang Song, Zhu Han, Bingli Jiao

Published Apr 1, 2011• 42 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a cooperative wireless network with jamming-based secure communications, where a friendly jammer can transmit jamming signals to interfere the malicious eavesdropper. We find that the secrecy rate of the source-destination link can be effectively improved with the help of the friendly jammer, and each source intends to obtain optimal jamming power from the friendly jammer to maximize its secrecy rate for data transmission. We then formulate this power allocation problem as an auction game and propose two distributively auction-based power allocation schemes, which are power allocation using Traditional Ascending Clock Auction (ACA-T) and power allocation using Alternative Ascending Clock Auction (ACA-A), considering the friendly jammer as the auctioneer and the sources as the bidders. In addition, we prove that both the proposed schemes can converge in a finite number of iterations. We also prove that the ACA-A scheme is cheat-proof while the ACA-T scheme is not. Finally, simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed auction-based schemes in improving secrecy rate of wireless networks.

DOI
10.1109/infcomw.2011.5928805

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In this paper, we investigate a cooperative wireless network with jamming-based secure communications, where a friendly jammer can transmit jamming signals to interfere the malicious eavesdropper. We find that the secrecy rate of the source-destination link can be effectively improved with the help of the friendly jammer, and each source intends to obtain optimal jamming power from the friendly jammer to maximize its secrecy rate for data transmission. We then formulate this power allocation problem as an auction game and propose two distributively auction-based power allocation schemes, which are power allocation using Traditional Ascending Clock Auction (ACA-T) and power allocation using Alternative Ascending Clock Auction (ACA-A), considering the friendly jammer as the auctioneer and the sources as the bidders. In addition, we prove that both the proposed schemes can converge in a finite number of iterations. We also prove that the ACA-A scheme is cheat-proof while the ACA-T scheme is not. Finally, simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed auction-based schemes in improving secrecy rate of wireless networks.
Physical layer security is an emerging security research area that explores the possibilities of achieving perfect secrecy data transmission between sources and intended destinations, while possible malicious eavesdroppers who intend to eavesdrop the communication links obtain zero information. However, such a security is determined by the wireless channel conditions: if the channel between source and destination is worse than the channel between source and eavesdropper, the secrecy rate is typically zero. To overcome this limitation, cooperative jamming is considered as a promising approach where selected jammers can transmit jamming signals to interfere with the malicious eavesdroppers and thus the secrecy capacity can be effectively improved. In this chapter, we consider the jamming power allocation issue in a jammer-assisted cooperative wireless network. The secrecy rate of the source-destination links can be optimized utilizing a well-chosen amount of jamming power from the friendly jammer, and thus each source that can benefit intends to obtain an optimal jamming power to maximize its secrecy rate for data transmission. Then, the problem comes to how to effectively allocate the limited jamming power owned by the friendly jammer among the sources in demand to achieve an optimized system performance. By considering the friendly jammer as the auctioneer and the sources as the bidders, we formulate this power allocation problem as an auction game model, and introduce three distributed auction-based power allocation schemes, i.e., Power allocation scheme based on Single object pay-as-bid Ascending Clock Auction (P-ACA-S), Power allocation scheme based on Traditional Ascending Clock Auction (P-ACA-T), and Power Allocation Scheme based on Alternative Ascending Clock Auction (P-ACA-A). In addition, we investigate some basic properties of the proposed three auction-based power allocation schemes, i.e., convergence, cheat-proof property, and social welfare maximization.
In this paper, we investigate jamming power allocation to improve physical layer security in a multiuser two-way relay network, where several communication pairs, one untrusted relay and one friendly jammer are involved. The untrusted relay helps these pairs to forward information and tries to eavesdrop simultaneously. In order to deteriorate the eavesdropping link and to improve physical layer security, we introduce a friendly jammer to impose interference on the relay. We formulate the jamming power allocation as an ACA-A game, where the friendly jammer is modeled as the auctioneer and the pairs are regarded as the bidders. The convergence and the cheat-proof property of the proposed auction are analyzed and proved. Finally, we also carry out some numerical results to validate the effectiveness of the proposed ACA-A based power allocation algorithm.
Physical layer security is an emerging security area that explores possibilities of achieving perfect secrecy data transmission between the intended network nodes, while possible malicious nodes that eavesdrop the communication obtain zero information. The so-called secrecy rate can be improved using friendly jammers that introduce extra interference to the eavesdroppers. Here, we investigate the interaction between the multiple source-destination links and a friendly jammer who assists by ''masking" the eavesdropper. In order to obtain a distributed solution, one possibility is to introduce a distributed auction theoretic approach. The auction is defined such that the source-destination links provide bids for the jammer to interfere the eavesdropper, therefore increasing their secrecy capacities. We propose a distributed auction using the share auction and iteratively updating the bids. To compare with the performances, we construct a centralized solution and a VCG auction, which cannot be implemented in practice. Our analysis and simulation results show the effectiveness of friendly jamming and convergence of the proposed scheme. The distributed game solution is shown to have similar performances to those of the centralized ones.
Physical layer security is an emerging security area that explores possibilities of achieving perfect secrecy data transmission between the intended network nodes, while possible malicious nodes that eavesdrop the communication obtain zero information. The so-called secrecy capacity can be improved using friendly jammers that introduce extra interference to the eavesdroppers. Here, we investigate the interaction between the multiple source-destination links and a friendly jammer who assists by “masking” the eavesdropper. In order to obtain a distributed solution, one possibility is to introduce a distributed auction theoretic approach. The auction is defined such that the source-destination links provide bids for the jammer to interfere the eavesdropper, therefore increasing their secrecy capacities. We propose a distributed auction using the share auction and iteratively updating the bids. To compare with the performances, we construct a centralized solution and a VCG auction, which cannot be implemented in practice. Our analysis and simulation results show the effectiveness of friendly jamming and convergence of the proposed scheme. The distributed game solution is shown to have similar performances to those of the centralized ones.
In this paper, the problem of improving the secrecy communication for a cooperative jamming based network in which there is a friendly jammer, an eavesdropper and N pairs of sources and destinations is addressed. A Stackelberg game is formulated to tackle the joint utility maximization of the jammer and sources subject to a maximum jamming power constraint at the jammer. In this game, the jammer behaves as the leader and the sources are followers. A uniform pricing algorithm is proposed and we prove in theory that it can maximize the secrecy rate of the system. The Stackelberg equilibrium for the proposed game is characterized, and an effective distributed algorithm with guaranteed convergence is proposed. Numerical examples are presented to validate our analysis. It is shown that the proposed distributed algorithm can obtain almost the same performance as the optimal power allocation algorithm. Besides, we also investigate the performance of the proposed distributed algorithm in different scenarios. It is shown that the proposed algorithm can obtain significant improvement for secrecy rate in the sparse scenario where all the nodes are deployed sparsely. It can enhance the secrecy rate for about 0.3 dB.
In this paper, we examine the physical layer security for cooperative wireless networks with multiple intermediate nodes, where the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol is considered. We propose a new joint cooperative beamforming and jamming (JCBJ) scheme to protect wireless communication against eavesdropping, where the intermediate nodes which successfully decode the source signal are selected as the relays for simultaneously forwarding the source signal by employing a weight vector, and meanwhile, the others are used to act as the friendly jammers for broadcasting artificial noise to disturb the eavesdropper. We further investigate the optimal power allocation among the source, relays and friendly jammers for maximizing the secrecy rate of the proposed JCBJ scheme and derive a closed-form sub-optimal solution. Simulation results show that the proposed JCBJ scheme achieves obviously higher secrecy rate than the conventional generalized singular-value-decomposition (GSVD) based beamforming and pure jamming schemes. Additionally, the proposed optimal power allocation scheme performs much better than the equal power allocation scheme in terms of secrecy rate.