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Secure transmission in large‐scale cooperative millimetre‐wave systems with passive eavesdroppers

Mohammad Ragheb, Seyed Mostafa Safavi Hemami

Published Oct 7, 2019• 4 citations

Abstract

By considering millimetre wave (mmWave) transmission as an effective solution for the fifth‐generation (5G) wireless communication systems, the authors propose a new optimal power allocation (OPA) scheme to maximise the instantaneous secrecy rate of a cooperative wireless network. The communication network under study is comprised of a multiple‐antennas source, a multiple‐antennas destination, a single antenna untrusted relay and single antenna passive eavesdroppers (Eves). To prevent the untrusted relay and passive Eves from overhearing the source message, a new secure transmission scheme is proposed. Based on this scheme, the destination sends an artificial noise (AN) towards the untrusted relay, and concurrently, the source is forced to dedicate part of its power to transmit AN to keep the information confidential from the Eves. For such a communication network, two cases of non‐colluding Eves (NCE) and colluding Eves (CE) are taken into account. Based on the proposed OPA, a novel closed‐form expression is presented for the ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) performance over mmWave channels. Next, the authors derive the high signal‐to‐noise ratio slope and power offset of the ESR to evaluate the effects of network parameters on the ESR performance. Numerical examples depict that the proposed optimised systems for both NCE and CE present superior ESR compared to other transmission policies.

DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2019.0197

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