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Cooperative Interference and Power Allocation in a Bidirectional Untrusted Relay Network With Channel Estimation Errors

Li-Hua Gong, Xiaoxiu Ding, Qibiao Zhu, Nanrun Zhou

Published Jan 1, 2018• 7 citations
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Abstract

The secure communication of a two-way untrusted amplify-and-forward relay network under the imperfect channel state information is investigated. To improve the secrecy of the relay wiretap system, artificial noise is introduced into each source signal. The total and the individual power constraint conditions are considered. To maximize the attainable secrecy rate, an iterative power allocation algorithm is designed under the total power constraint. As a more practical system design, a suboptimal power allocation scheme is proposed. For the sake of comparison, the security performances of the noncooperative interference strategy and the one-way cooperative interference strategy are also investigated. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed bidirectional cooperative interference schemes perform better in the secrecy rate of communication system.

DOI
10.1109/access.2018.2868500

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Summary An artificial noise strategy is proposed for amplify‐and‐forward bi‐directional relay network where the eavesdropper can wiretap the relay channels in both hops. Artificial noise is used to confuse the eavesdropper and improve its secrecy. Specifically, the source and the relay are allowed to split their available transmit power into 2 parts: a useful information portion and a jamming portion to transmit a jamming signal. The mathematical model is established for 2‐way relay network with an eavesdropper. The secrecy rate achieved by using artificial jamming is derived from the above model. The optimal power allocation with individual power constraint is obtained via sequential quadratic programming to maximize the secrecy sum rate, and 2 special cases are investigated. Furthermore, the benchmark is provided for the purpose of performance comparison. Simulation results show that the proposed strategy can significantly improve the secrecy sum rate by using artificial noise to jam the eavesdropper.
By taking a variety of realistic hardware imperfections into consideration, we propose an optimal power allocation (OPA) strategy to maximize the instantaneous secrecy rate of a cooperative wireless network comprised of a source, a destination, and an untrusted amplify-and-forward relay. We assume that either the source or the destination is equipped with a large-scale multiple antennas' system, while the rest are equipped with a single antenna. To prevent the untrusted relay from intercepting the source message, the destination sends an intended jamming noise to the relay, which is referred to as destination-based cooperative jamming. Given this system model, novel closed-form expressions are presented in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime for the ergodic secrecy rate and the secrecy outage probability. We further improve the secrecy performance of the system by optimizing the associated hardware design. The results reveal that by beneficially distributing the tolerable hardware imperfections across the transmission and reception radio-frequency front ends of each node, the system's secrecy rate may be improved. The engineering insight is that equally sharing the total imperfections at the relay between the transmitter and the receiver provides the best secrecy performance. Numerical results illustrate that the proposed OPA together with the most appropriate hardware design significantly increases the secrecy rate.
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