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International Conference on Communications

Combating full-duplex active eavesdropper: A game-theoretic perspective

Xiao Tang, Pinyi Ren, Zhu Han

Published May 1, 2016• 10 citations
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Abstract

Security issue is of paramount importance yet significant challenge for wireless communications, and this problem can be even more intricate when facing with a full-duplex adversary. In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security of a legitimate transmission link in the presence of a full-duplex active eavesdropper, who is capable to perform eavesdropping and jamming simultaneously. The legitimate user aims at a target secrecy rate while the eavesdropper intends to maximize its wiretap rate. To this end, the eavesdropper imposes a jamming signal at the legitimate receiver to stimulate higher-power legitimate transmissions and thus facilitates its eavesdropping. This, however, generates residual self-interference at the eavesdropper itself and is subject to a linear price for the jamming power. The problem is then formulated within a game-theoretic framework, where the closed-form strategies of both the legitimate user and active eavesdropper are obtained. Moreover, we analyze the performance in terms of secrecy outage probability for the legitimate link in such a hostile situation. Also provided are the simulation results which validate our theoretical analysis.

DOI
10.1109/icc.2016.7510988

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In this paper, we investigate the performance of artificial noise assisted secure communication in the presence of a full-duplex active eavesdropper who can simultaneously perform eavesdropping and jamming. An approximate closed-form expression for the secrecy rate is derived. With this result, we obtain a new result for the optimal power allocation factor maximizing the secrecy rate, and analyze the impact of self-interference coefficient and jamming power on it. We further consider a more practical scenario where the legitimate user aims to maintain a given target data rate and uses all remaining power for artificial noise (AN) to interfere with the eavesdropper. While the eavesdropper tries to compel the transmitter to reduce the AN by sending jamming signals to the legitimate receiver. To solve this conflict, we introduce a power cost parameter to describe the impact of jamming on the eavesdropper itself and then formulate a game-theoretic framework. We also derive the closed-form equilibrium solutions for both sides. These results show the optimal jamming strategy of the eavesdropper and provide insights into the low bound secrecy performance. Finally, simulation results are provided to verify our analytical results.
As many security solutions integrated with various technologies have been proposed against eavesdropping attacks, technical advances for adversaries can also pose a serious security threat. This paper considers a problem of smart eavesdropping attacks on multiple-input-multiple-output wiretap channels for a legitimate transceiver. We present a smart eavesdropper model and a cooperative jamming solution between transceivers that can control the jamming signal power to achieve the optimal secrecy performance. In particular, for practical applications, our proposed solution considers the residual self-interference from the full-duplex receiver and the limited cancellation capability of the smart eavesdropper. We derive the secrecy outage probability in general and smart eavesdropper cases, and show numerical results and secrecy regions for evaluation. As a result, our proposed solutions can improve the secrecy performance significantly by exploiting the full-duplex receiver and the cooperative jamming strategies with the sophisticated power control according to power expenditure.
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