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IET Communications

Secrecy analysis of wireless sensor network in smart grid with destination assisted jamming

Michael Atallah, Md Sahabul Alam, Georges Kaddoum

Published Apr 10, 2019• 5 citations
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Abstract

In this study, the authors investigate the physical layer security performance over Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of impulsive noise, as encountered, for instance in smart grid environments. For this scheme, secrecy performance metrics are considered with and without destination assisted jamming at the eavesdropper's side. Specifically, they derive analytical expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP), at the legitimate receiver. Finally, numerical results are provided to verify the accuracy of the authors' derivations. From the obtained results, it is verified that the SOP, without destination assisted jamming, is flooring at high signal‐to‐noise‐ratio values and that it can be significantly improved with the use of jamming.

DOI
10.1049/iet-com.2018.5344

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In this study, the authors investigate the secrecy performance at the physical layer of wireless communication systems where the channels are modelled as cascaded fading channels, in which the fading effects are worse than those in the cellular communication channels like Rayleigh and Nakagami‐ m . Analytic results are derived for the cascaded Nakagami‐ m fading channel model comprising the cascaded Rayleigh, 2*Nakagami‐ m , the generalised‐ K , and the conventional cellular channel models as well. By evaluating the information‐theoretic physical layer security performance, they obtain the closed‐form expressions of the average secrecy capacity and probability of the positive secrecy capacity in case of that channel‐state‐information of the eavesdropper is known by the source. Then they obtain the exact closed‐form secrecy outage probability (SOP) when the eavesdropper is passive. Analytic results are computed in terms of the bivariate and univariate Meijer's G functions and later on are successfully validated through Monte Carlo simulations. The simulation results show that the secrecy performance worsens with the increasing cascading degree of the fading channels. For example, in 2*Nakagami‐ m fading channels where the cascading degree is 2, extra 4 dB signal‐to‐noise ratio is required to achieve the same SOP value in comparison with the classical Nakagami‐ m fading channels.
Abstract This article studies a smart grid dynamic wide area network where a friendly jammer is proposed to enhance the secrecy of the network. In the network, the smart meter (SM) in each household communicates with the full‐duplex meter data control unit (FD‐MDCU) via a decode‐and‐forward data aggregation unit in the presence of an eavesdropper. To improve the security of the network, the FD‐MDCU transmits jammer signal which interfere with the eavesdropper. It is assumed that all the household are not sending data at the same time, thus Markov chain is employed to model the number of active SM. Thus, to evaluate the performance of the proposed network, the closed‐form expressions of connection outage probability (COP), security outage probability, and secrecy throughput metrics are obtained. Moreover, more insight about the network performance is provide by obtaining the COP asymptotic expression at high signal‐to‐noise ratio. Also, the accuracy of the derived expressions is justified by Monte‐Carlo simulations. Our findings demonstrate the impact of network and channel parameters on the network security performance.
In this Letter, the physical layer security for a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)‐assisted non‐orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system in a multi‐user scenario is investigated, where the authors consider the worst case that the eavesdropper also utilises the advantage of the RISs. More specifically, they derive analytical results for the secrecy outage probability (SOP). From the numerical results, they observe that the use of RISs can improve the secrecy performance compared to traditional NOMA systems. However, for the worst case that the received signals at the eavesdropper come from the RISs and source, increasing the number of intelligent elements on the RIS has a negative impact on the secrecy performance. At high signal‐to‐noise ratios, the system's SOP tends to a constant. Finally, the secrecy performance can be improved through group selection.
This paper analyzes the secure outage performance of a power beacon (PB)-assisted wireless network employing short packet communication. We consider a system where an EH transmitter communicates with a legitimate receiver under the threat of multiple eavesdroppers. We derive closed-form expressions for key secrecy metrics: the probability of nonzero secrecy capacity (PNSC), intercept probability, and secure outage probability (SOP) over Nakagami-mmmfading channels. Our analysis delineates the joint impact of the transmit signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), fading severity, channel parameters, the number of eavesdroppers, and additionally demonstrates how energy conversion efficiency of the harvesting circuit influences secrecy behavior in practice. The analytical findings are further validated through Monte-Carlo simulations, which confirm the accuracy of the derived expressions. The findings demonstrate that strategic system design, particularly strengthening the main channel in a proper way, improving harvesting duration, and ensuring efficient energy conversion, can effectively mitigate eavesdropping risks and ensure confidentiality. This work provides critical aspects for securing future energy constrained Internet of Things (IoT) networks where short packets and robust data privacy are essential.
In smart cities, the ubiquitous network connections and high data rate services are provided to afford effective service of real-time monitoring and responses. With the development of the 5G mobile communication technology, the wireless sensor mobile communication networks in the smart city have become a hot issue for academic researches. Due to the openness of wireless channels, the physical layer security of the wireless mobile sensor mobile communication networks in smart city encounters severe challenges. In this paper, based on Wyner's wiretap model, the secrecy performance of the wireless mobile sensor communication networks over 2-Nakagami fading channels is investigated. We derive the exact secure outage probability (SOP) and the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity expressions for two transmit antenna selection (TAS) schemes. The exact closed-form expressions for the lower bound on the SOP are also derived using the optimal TAS scheme. Then, the system secrecy performance is verified and analyzed by Monte Carlo simulations under different conditions. The simulation results show that the analytical results match perfectly with the Monte Carlo simulation results. Increasing the number of transmit antennas can improve secrecy performance.
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.