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IEEE Communications Letters

Robust Resource Allocation for Secrecy Wireless Powered Communication Networks

Yanan Wu, Xiaoming Chen, Chau Yuen, Caijun Zhong

Published Sep 20, 2016• 35 citations
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Abstract

In this letter, we consider a secrecy wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where an information source sends message to a legitimate destination with the energy harvested from a power source, while an eavesdropper intends to intercept the information. In such a secrecy WPCN, transmit power and transfer time at the power source, and spatial beam at the information source, are interrelated, and together affect the secrecy performance. Considering imperfect channel state information about the eavesdropper channel, a robust resource allocation scheme is proposed for maximizing the secrecy rate in the worst case. Finally, the simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

DOI
10.1109/lcomm.2016.2598327

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In this work, we investigate a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) where multiple eavesdroppers attempt to intercept the information between a hybrid access-point (H-AP) and an energy harvesting (EH) user. During the first energy transfer (ET) phase, the EH user and an EH cooperative jammer harvest energy from the transmitted signals of the H- AP. Then, in the next information transfer (IT) phase, the user sends confidential information to the H-AP while the jammer broadcasts artificial noises to the eavesdroppers by utilizing their previously harvested energy. We particularly consider optimization of the time allocation between the ET and the IT phases by which the secrecy rate is maximized. To cut down a computational burden, a low-complexity closed-form solution of the time allocation factor with some interesting behaviors will be proposed by a worst-case approximation. Through simulation results, we evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme and show that a performance gain compared to conventional schemes becomes clearer with the increased number of eavesdroppers.
In this paper, we consider a secrecy wireless powered communication network, where an information source (IS) transmits message to a legitimate information receiver (IR) with the energy it harvests from the energy source (ES) and a full-duplex (FD) active eavesdropper (AE) performs eavesdropping and jamming simultaneously with the energy it harvests from the ES. With a goal to maximize the achievable secrecy rate, we jointly optimize the energy beamforming and the artificial noise (AN) beamforming at the ES, the information beamforming at the IS and the energy transfer time at the ES. Numerical results are given to show the superiority of our proposed scheme.
In this work, we consider a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with an energy harvesting (EH) jammer where an eavesdropper tries to wiretap the communication between a user and a hybrid access-point (H-AP). In our system, the H-AP first transmits an energy signal to recharge the batteries of the EH user and the EH jammer in the energy transfer (ET) phase. Then, in the subsequent information transfer (IT) phase, the user sends its information signal to the H-AP, while the jammer generates the jamming signal to interfere the eavesdropper utilizing the harvested energy in the ET phase. Assuming only the channel distribution information (CDI) of the eavesdropper is available at the legitimate nodes, we analyze and minimize the secrecy outage probability by optimizing the time allocation between the two phases. To reduce the complexity, we also provide a simple closed-form solution, and the simulation results verify that its performance approaches the optimum.
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