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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Physical Layer Security in Wireless Networks With Ginibre Point Processes

Han-Bae Kong, Ping Wang, Dusit Tao Niyato, Yu Cheng

Published May 28, 2018• 17 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate wireless networks consisting of a legitimate transmitter (Alice), a legitimate receiver (Bob), eavesdroppers (Eves), and friendly jammers. Two network scenarios are considered depending on whether Alice and the jammers have the ability to detect the existence of Eves in their vicinity. If they do not have the ability, as a means to enhance the secrecy, Alice transmits artificial noise and each jammer selectively radiates a jamming signal based on the channel gain between the jammer and Bob. On the other hand, when they have the ability, Alice sends a confidential message to Bob if no Eve is detected within its guard zone, and the jammers transmit jamming signals when there exists at least one Eve in their vicinity. We model the spatial distributions of Eves and jammers as $\beta $ -Ginibre point processes, which can characterize repulsion among the nodes and include the Poisson point process (PPP) as a special case. Then, we analyze both the probability that Bob successfully decodes the confidential message and the probability that the message is secure against eavesdropping. Also, we show that our analysis is a generalization of previous works on the networks with PPPs by recovering them from our analytical results.

DOI
10.1109/twc.2018.2838592

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In this paper, we analyze a network consisting of a single source, legitimate destination and an eavesdropper in the presence of multiple helping nodes acting as friendly jammer to support secure communication. We propose a practical jamming method for uncoordinated cooperative jamming (UCJ) with less system overhead. Jammers are selected to secure the communication in an energy efficient way. We model the spatial distribution of jammers as a Poisson point process (PPP). Jammers are selected according to the source to destination channel quality within a finite region surrounding the source. The secrecy transmission rate of the network is evaluated from coverage probability and secrecy probability. The secure energy efficiency (SEE) of the system is analyzed by considering a more realistic power consumption model with the transmit power of various nodes as well as their circuit consumption power.
ABSTRACT We study a wireless communication system consisting of a transmitter, a legitimate receiver, multi‐antenna eavesdroppers and randomly distributed friendly jammers. A secrecy guard zone surrounds the transmitter, within which eavesdroppers can be detected or denied entry. To counter the multi‐antenna eavesdroppers' ability to mitigate jamming, we propose a randomised activation strategy where jammers independently transmit artificial noise with a probability. We derive closed‐form expressions for the transmission probability and secrecy outage probability, and develop an optimisation framework to adjust the rates of transmitted codewords and confidential messages. Simulation results validate our analytical derivations and demonstrate that the proposed strategy effectively maximises secrecy throughput while maintaining the secrecy outage probability below a specified threshold.
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