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International Conference on System Science and Engineering

On information securing capability of cognitive radio networks under primary interference and artificial noise

Khuong Ho‐Van, Trong Nguyen-Duc, An Vuong-Binh, Thiem Do‐Dac, Trung Nguyen-Huu, Lien Pham-Hong

Published Jul 1, 2017• 3 citations
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Abstract

This paper analyzes and evaluates joint effect of primary interference and artificial noise on information securing capability of cognitive radio networks (CRNs) under interference power constraint, peak transmit power constraint, and Rayleigh fading. An exact formula for an important security performance metric, secrecy outage probability, is first derived and then validated by computer simulations. Finally, this exact formula is used to provide numerous results to show security performance saturation at large peak transmit power or large peak interference power, adverse effect of primary interference on security performance, and security performance improvement owing to artificial noise.

DOI
10.1109/icsse.2017.8030929

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This paper analyzes secrecy outage probability (SOP) of underlay cognitive radio systems (UCRSs) interfered by signals from primary networks, impaired by channel information inaccuracy and Rayleigh fading, constrained by peak transmit power and tolerable interference power. The analytical result is presented in an exact expression and corroborated by computer simulations. Multiple results illustrate that the SOP suffers a floor in a regime of large peak interference power or large peak transmit power. Additionally, the influence of the interference from the primary network and the channel information inaccuracy on information securing capability is severe.
This work explores the physical layer security of an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) in the presence of a powerful interferer called a primary transmitter (PT) under peak interference power constraint. Under this scenario, the secondary transmitter (Alice) transmits secret information on a single antenna with the highest signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) to a legitimate receiver (Bob), and an eavesdropper (Eve) attempts to intercept that information. Depending upon the availability of channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper channel, we investigate the secrecy performance of the proposed network in the Rayleigh fading environment for both passive and active eavesdropping scenarios. We obtain analytical expressions for the secrecy outage probability, intercept probability, andϵ\epsilonϵ-outage secrecy capacity in a passive eavesdropping scenario. A complete investigation of the average secrecy capacity (ASC) has been made, and novel expressions for the exact and asymptotic ASC have been obtained for active eavesdropping. Bolstering these results, we also define a high SINR power offset, which quantifies the significance of main system parameters on the ASC explicitly. Further, the effect of outdated CSI of Alice to primary receiver link on the various performance metrics with the concept of interference-outage is also studied.
Abstract In Rician-fading scenario, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) with a source in a secondary system transmitting its confidential information to a legitimate destination in the presence of an eavesdropper, are considered in this paper. Under CRNs, the interference power reaching at primary user (PU) is limited by some pre-defined threshold. Secrecy outage not only occurs when the achievable secrecy capacity for source-destination link is smaller than a target rate, but also occurs in the case that the interference power at PU is greater than that threshold. Analytical expression for secrecy outage probability has been derived and verified with simulation results. In addition, we have also derived the analytical expression for probability of non-zero secrecy capacity.
The presence of correlated and imperfect channel state information (CSI) affects the secrecy performance of cognitive radio networks (CRN). In this paper, we propose a physical layer security analysis of underlay CRN in terms of secrecy outage probability (SOP), average secrecy rate (ASR), and amount of secrecy loss (ASL). Closed forms of SOP, ASR, and ASL are provided over imperfect CSI of Rayleigh fading environment where the legitimate channel is correlated with the eavesdropper channel. The analytical results are compared with the simulation results. The work is also compared with existing work. It has been observed that the secrecy performance of the network improves as peak interference power increases, and the correlation positively impacts the secrecy performance at a medium-to-high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); however, it degrades the data security capability of the network at low SNR. Furthermore, asymptotic analysis shows that the secrecy performance of the network improves with the growing correlation between legitimate and eavesdropper channels when the SNR of the legitimate channel is much higher than that of the eavesdropper channel, whereas secrecy performance decreases with a reducing correlation when the SNR of the legitimate channel is approximately equal to SNR of eavesdropper channel.
In this paper, we investigate the secrecy performance of a Cooperative Cognitive Radio Network (CCRN) in the presence of an eavesdropper (EAV). The secondary users (SUs) are subject to three constraints which include peak transmit power level and interference limitation with respect to the primary user (PU) as well as secrecy outage constraints due to the EAV. Secrecy outage is achieved when the EAV cannot decode the targeted signal, but communications in the secondary network is still possible (non-zero capacity exists). Approximation expressions of the secrecy outage probability and the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity are derived to evaluate the secrecy performance. Monte Carlo simulations are provided to examine the accuracy of the derived approximation expressions. Based on this, power allocation policies for the SUs are derived, satisfying all the constraints while maximizing the secrecy performance as well as the quality of service performance of the secondary network. It can be concluded that with knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) of the EAV it is possible to calculate the optimal value for the secrecy outage threshold of the secondary user (SU) which in turn allows maximizing the secrecy performance. Most interestingly, our numerical results illustrate that the secrecy performance of the system is much improved when the parameters obtained using the CSI of the EAV are calculated optimally. Thence, the system can adjust the power allocation so that no eavesdropping occurs even without reducing quality of service (QoS) performance compared to a network without any EAV.
The authors study the secure transmission design in random cognitive radio networks where the primary users, the secondary users and the eavesdroppers are randomly distributed according to Poisson point processes. Centring on this scenario, the authors propose a simple and decentralised secure transmission scheme by jointly incorporating the secrecy guard zone and artificial noise. In particular, this transmission scheme helps to enhance secrecy performance via differentiating between secondary transmitters in accordance with the eavesdropping environment. They then analyse the connection outage and secrecy outage performance of the secondary network, based on which they obtain the closed‐form expression of the secrecy throughput. They further determine the optimal transmission power of the secondary transmitters and the optimal power allocation between the information‐bearing signal and artificial noise to maximise the secrecy throughput of the secondary network under primary and secondary outage constraints. The authors’ analysis highlights that introducing secrecy guard zone provides better security performance, and artificial noise performs as additional interference to insert a control between the reliability and security. Numerical results show how the system parameters affect the achievable maximum secrecy throughput, the optimal transmission power and the optimal power allocation between the information‐bearing signal and the artificial noise.