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IEEE Transactions on Communications

Physical-Layer Security With Full-Duplex Transceivers and Multiuser Receiver at Eve

Nurul Huda Mahmood, Imran Shafique Ansari, Petar Popovski, Preben Mogensen, Khalid A. Qaraqe

Published Jun 9, 2017• 45 citations
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Abstract

Full-duplex communication enables simultaneous transmission from both ends of a communication link, thereby promising significant performance gains. Generally, it has been shown that the throughput and delay gains of full-duplex communication are somewhat limited in realistic network settings, leading researchers to study other possible applications that can accord higher gains. The potential of full-duplex communication in improving the physical-layer security of a communication link is investigated in this contribution. We specifically present a thorough analysis of the achievable ergodic secrecy rate and the secrecy degrees of freedom with full-duplex communication in the presence of a half-duplex eavesdropper node, with both single-user decoding and multi-user decoding capabilities. For the latter case, an eavesdropper with successive interference cancellation and joint decoding capabilities is assumed. Irrespective of the eavesdropper capabilities and channel strengths, the ergodic secrecy rate with full-duplex communication is found to grow linearly with the log of the direct channel signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) as opposed to the flattened out secrecy rate with conventional half-duplex communication. Consequently, the secrecy degrees of freedom with full-duplex is shown to be two as opposed to that of zero in half-duplex mode.

DOI
10.1109/tcomm.2017.2713816

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Full duplex (FD) communication promises significant performance gains under ideal network settings. Generally, it has been shown that the throughput and delay gains of FD communication are somewhat limited in realistic conditions, leading researchers to study other possible applications where significantly higher gains over half duplex communication can be availed. The potential of FD nodes in improving the physical layer security of a communication link is investigated in this contribution. Specifically, we present a thorough analysis of the achievable secrecy rate for a transceiver pair in FD mode in the presence of a passive eavesdropper assuming a generic system model. The ergodic secrecy rate with FD communication is found to grow linearly with the log of the direct channel signal to noise ratio as opposed to the flattened out secrecy rate with conventional half duplex communication and irrespective of the eavesdropper channel strengths.
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.
Secure transmission is possible in wireless communication due to physical layer security with the help of relay in the presence of eavesdroppers. In this system, we investigate the secrecy performance for desired users where undesired users, who are not selected for data reception, may overhear the message signal as eavesdroppers. Here, relay operate with decode-and-forward (DF) mode with full-duplex jamming (FDJ) under total transmit power constraint. First obtain the secrecy rate for half-duplex transmission (HDT), which requires two time slot for data reception and transmission. Second obtain the secrecy rate in FDJ. In this system, we use FDJ scheme to overcome the overhearing of eavesdroppers, in which a desired receiver send a jamming signal towards untrustworthy relay when relay receive a message signal from transmitter and then relay decode and forward the received signal towards desired receiver on the same time slot. Now receiver receives the message signal with jamming and only this desire receiver can subtract the jamming signal and also it will create an interference to prevent the overhearing of undesired receiver. The result indicate that secrecy rate of FDJ is better than the HDT.
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Abstract This paper examines physical layer security in a NOMA-based two-way wireless communication system with several decode-and-forward relays and a malicious eavesdropper. We implement a partial relay selection system to maximize the secrecy capacity of a specific user's information signal. Two hops are involved in the communication process because of the half-duplex relay cooperation. A selected relay receives information from two users. The relay strengthens the signals and broadcasts them during the second hop. Additionally, a jammer transmits a jamming signal that is known to all legitimate nodes but appears as noise with the received signals at the eavesdropper. Since legitimate user nodes are already aware of the jamming signal, channel status information, and self-information, they can decode the original information in downlink mode by self-interference and successive interference cancellation. Secrecy outage probability, intercept probability, and secrecy throughput have been investigated as metrics to analyze the security, where the secrecy performance of a particular user is found to increase by 94.66 %94.66\, \%94.66% with an increment in transmit SNR of jamming from 60 dB60\, dB60dB to 70 dB70\, dB70dB and increases by 90.78 %90.78\, \%90.78% with an increment in the number of relays from 2 to 5.
The two-way wiretap channel is considered in this paper. Two legitimate users, Alice and Bob, wish to exchange messages securely in the presence of a passive eavesdropper Eve. In the full-duplex scenario, where each node can transmit and receive simultaneously, new achievable secrecy rate regions are obtained based on the idea of allowing the two users to jointly optimize their channel prefixing distributions and binning codebooks in addition to key sharing. The new regions are shown to be strictly larger than the known ones for a wide class of discrete memoryless and Gaussian channels. In the half-duplex case, where a user can only transmit or receive on any given degree of freedom, the idea of randomized scheduling is introduced and shown to offer a significant gain in terms of the achievable secrecy sum-rate. A practical setup is further developed based on a near field wireless communication scenario, and it is shown that one can exploit the two-way nature of the communication, via appropriately randomizing the transmit power levels and transmission schedule, to introduce significant ambiguity at a noiseless Eve.