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Physical layer security of underlay cognitive radio using maximal ratio combining

Hui Zhao, Danyang Wang, Chaoqing Tang, Yaping Liu, Gaofeng Pan, Tingting Li, Yunfei Chen

Published Sep 1, 2016• 8 citations
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We investigate the secrecy outage performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) in cognitive radio networks over Rayleigh fading channels. In a single-input multiple-output wiretap system, we consider a secondary user (SU-TX) that transmits confidential messages to another secondary user (SU-RX) equipped with M ( M ≥ 1) antennas where the MRC technique is adopted to improve its received signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, an eavesdropper equipped with N ( N ≥ 1) antennas adopts the MRC scheme to overhear the information between SU-TX and SU-RX. SU-TX adopts the underlay strategy to guarantee the service quality of the primary user without spectrum sensing. We derive the closed-form expressions for an exact and asymptotic secrecy outage probability.

DOI
10.1631/fitee.1500351

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