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IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Secrecy performance of finite-sized cooperative full-duplex relay systems with unreliable backhauls

Hongwu Liu, Kyeong Jin Kim, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Kyung Sup Kwak, H. Vincent Poor

Published Aug 28, 2017• 11 citations
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Abstract

This paper investigates secrecy performance of finite-sized cooperative full-duplex relay (FDR) systems with unreliable wireless backhaul connections across multiple transmitters under Nakagami-m fading. Closed-form expressions for the secrecy outage probability and probability of nonzero achievable secrecy rate are derived in terms of self-interference (SI), transmitter cooperation, and backhaul reliability. It is shown that transmitter cooperation can effectively enhance the secrecy performance, while the asymptotic limits on the secrecy outage probability and probability of nonzero achievable secrecy rate are exclusively determined by backhaul reliability. With the aid of transmitter cooperation, the burden of SI cancelation can be alleviated for the FDR system in achieving the smallest allowed secrecy outage probability. Compared to that of a half-duplex relay (HDR) system, the FDR system achieves a lower secrecy outage probability with well suppressed SI. The analysis shows that the secrecy outage probability achieved by the FDR system converges to that of the HDR system under perfect backhaul as the target secrecy rate becomes small. The secrecy performance metrics of the considered system are verified by simulations for various backhaul scenarios.

DOI
10.1109/tsp.2017.2745463

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In this paper, the secrecy performance of cooperative heterogeneous networks with unreliable backhaul over Nakagami- m fading channels is investigated. To secure the proposed system, a friendly jammer is considered to confuse eavesdroppers. To transmit the signals from the source to the destination, a two-phase transmitter/relay selection scheme is proposed. The best transmitter is selected when the signal-to-noise ratio at the relays is maximized. In the second phase, the best relay is chosen when the jamming signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of the eavesdroppers is minimized. To investigate the system performance, closed -form expressions are derived for the secrecy outage probability, ergodic capacity and non-zero achievable secrecy rate. In order to gain an insight into the system, asymptotic analysis is also provided. The results show that the degree of cooperative transmission and backhaul reliability are key parameters in the system and these parameters determine the secrecy performance.
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