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IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Physical Layer Security in Cooperative Energy Harvesting Networks With a Friendly Jammer

Tiep Minh Hoang, Trung Q. Duong, Nguyen‐Son Vo, Chinmoy Kundu

Published Jan 9, 2017• 152 citations
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Abstract

In this letter, we consider a cooperative wireless network consisting of a source, multiple intermediate energy harvesting nodes, and a destination, in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. First, the intermediate nodes use the time switching-based relaying protocol to harvest energy from the source signal. Then, a pair out of intermediate nodes are selected as a relay and a jammer to transmit confidential and jamming signals to the destination and eavesdropper. Under these assumptions, we evaluate the system performance in terms of secrecy outage probability.

DOI
10.1109/lwc.2017.2650224

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Physical layer security is a suitable replacement or complement to the traditional cryptography method for securing a wireless network. Physical layer security exploits the random characteristics of a wireless channel. Deploying multiple relays and a jammer can secure the system performance, however, extra power is required. RF energy harvesting is a promising solution to a wireless network's energy scarcity problem. RF energy is widely available in the environment due to billions of devices broadcasting it. Therefore, a secure, green system model is proposed with a source, destination, energy harvested relaying nodes, energy harvested jammer, power beacon and an eavesdropper. The theoretical analysis and simulations are provided to evaluate the system performance. The results show that when the number of relays increases, the secrecy outage probability of the considered system decreases. In addition, the system with a jammer outperforms that without a jammer, especially in high SNR scenarios. Finally, the energy harvesting time fraction is an important parameter and needs to be designed carefully in a system.
In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security (PLS) of a wireless sensor network (WSN) that consists of a base station (BS), multiple sensor nodes (SNs), and multiple energy-limited relays (ERs) in the presence of a passive eavesdropper (EAV). We adopt a time-switching/power-splitting (TSPS) mechanism for information transmission. The communication protocol is divided into two phases. The purpose of the first phase is to decode information, and energy harvesting (EH) is performed in accordance with the TSPS protocol. The purpose of the second phase is to transmit information to multiple destinations using the amplify-and-forward (AF) technique. In this study, we introduce a multirelay cooperative scheme (MRCS) to improve the secrecy performance. We derive analytical expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the MRCS and that of the noncooperative relay scheme (NCRS) by using the statistical characteristics of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Specifically, we propose an optimal relay selection scheme to guarantee the security of the system for the MRCS. In addition, Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to confirm the accuracy of our analysis based on simulations of the secrecy performance under various system parameters, such as the positions and number of ERs, the EH time, and the EH efficiency coefficients. Finally, the simulation results show that the secrecy performance of our MRCS is higher than that of the NCRS and the traditional cooperative relay scheme (TCRS).
Exploring a cooperative node as a friendly jammer is an effective means of providing secure communication between a source-destination pair in the presence of an eavesdropper. In this work, we consider the use of a wireless-powered friendly jammer. Without relying on external energy supply, the friendly jammer is powered by the source node via wireless power transfer. We apply a simple time-switching protocol where the power transfer and jammer-assisted secure transmission occur in different time blocks. By investigating the long-term behavior of the communication protocol, we derive a closed-form expression of the throughput. We further optimize the jamming power and the rate parameters for maximizing the throughput subject to a secrecy outage probability constraint.
In this paper we propose an energy harvesting-based cooperative jamming and full-duplex relaying scheme to enhance the secrecy rate for wireless communication between a source node and a destination node, in the presence of an eavesdropper. To characterize the performance, we develop a mathematical analysis framework for instantaneous and average secrecy rates. We consider the practical interference limited scenario, and derive exact closed-form expressions for the cumulative distribution function of the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SNIR) at the destination and eavesdropper nodes. Accordingly, the asymptotic average secrecy rates are derived. We show that the proposed protocol improves the average secrecy rate of a wireless cooperative network substantially. However, the instantaneous secrecy rate performance gain is highly depend on the duration of energy harvesting, the amount of self-interference and the corresponding channels and positions of the nodes in the system.
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