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IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Legitimate Eavesdropping in Two-Way AF Relay Networks

Guojie Hu, Yueming Cai

Published Jan 1, 2020• 24 citations
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Abstract

This letter considers a legitimate surveillance scenario, where two suspicious nodes intend to exchange their information via one suspicious amplify-and-forward relay in two phases, the process of which is under the supervision of one legitimate monitor. To achieve the effective surveillance, one novel eavesdropping strategy is designed, in which the monitor proceeds passive eavesdropping in phase 1 and then implements passive eavesdropping or simultaneous assisting and jamming in general in phase 2. Under this setup, the monitor mainly aims to design the optimal structure of the transmit signal for each specific strategy in phase 2 and then optimize the corresponding beamformers and power allocation, in order to maximize the obtained sum eavesdropping rate subject to its power constraints. Simulation results verify that, compared to the conventional schemes, the proposed adaptive eavesdropping strategy achieves significant performance gains.

DOI
10.1109/lwc.2020.2977900

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This letter considers a legitimate surveillance scenario, where two suspicious nodes intend to exchange their information via one suspicious amplify-and-forward relay in two phases, the process of which is under the supervision of one legitimate monitor. To achieve the effective surveillance, one novel eavesdropping strategy is designed, in which the monitor proceeds passive eavesdropping in phase 1 and then implements passive eavesdropping or simultaneous assisting and jamming in general in phase 2. Under this setup, the monitor mainly aims to design the optimal structure of the transmit signal for each specific strategy in phase 2 and then optimize the corresponding beamformers and power allocation, in order to maximize the obtained sum eavesdropping rate subject to its power constraints. Simulation results verify that, compared to the conventional schemes, the proposed adaptive eavesdropping strategy achieves significant performance gains.
This article considers a proactive eavesdropping scenario, where two suspicious nodes exchange their information via one suspicious relay in two phases, the process of which is under the supervision of one legitimate monitor. Specifically, these two suspicious nodes broadcast their suspicious data in phase 1 and the relay forwards the amplified version of its received signal in phase 2, according to which two proactive eavesdropping strategies, i.e., “passive eavesdropping first” and “jamming first,” are designed. Using the former strategy, the monitor proceeds eavesdropping with a minimum-mean-squar-error (MMSE) receiver in phase 1 and implements eavesdropping or simultaneous assisting and jamming in phase 2. Using the latter strategy, the monitor implements jamming in phase 1 and performs eavesdropping in phase 2. For these strategies, we provide the detailed analysis and formulate the corresponding optimization problems of sum eavesdropping rate maximization subject to finite transmit power of the monitor, each of which is then solved by carefully designing the power allocation scheme or the assisting/jamming beamformer at the legitimate monitor. In addition, for the “passive eavesdropping first” strategy, we also consider a more advanced MMSE with a successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver and concurrently exploit the time-sharing (TS) technique to further improve the eavesdropping rate. Finally, simulation results indicate that the “passive eavesdropping first” strategy is more preferable compared to the “jamming first” strategy, and the SIC and TS are preferable for promoting the more effective eavesdropping.
This letter studies the legitimate surveillance with one half-duplex legitimate monitor (E) over the suspicious multichannel relaying system, where the suspicious transmitter (ST) and relay (SR) implement the optimal power allocation over all orthogonal channels under a joint sum-power constraint to maximize the communication rate of the suspicious system. Under this setup and considering that SR operates in amplify-and-forward (AF) or decode-and-forward (DF) mode, E aims to i) determine the optimal set of sub-channels for jamming and ii) optimize its jamming power over these sub-channels in order to deliberately force ST and SR reallocating power to the unjammed sub-channels to the most, so as to increase the perceived power of E over the unjammed sub-channels and then maximize the eavesdropping rate. In particular, for the AF case, the formulated problem is non-convex, for which the slack variables are introduced and successive convex approximation is exploited. For the DF case, some insights are provided for the optimization process. Results present the considerable gain of the proposed strategy compared to intuitive schemes.
This letter investigates the performance of a legitimate surveillance system, where a legitimate monitor aims to eavesdrop on a dubious decode-and-forward relaying communication link. In order to maximize the effective eavesdropping rate, two strategies are proposed, where the legitimate monitor adaptively acts as an eavesdropper, a jammer, or a helper. In addition, the corresponding optimal jamming beamformer and jamming power are presented. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed strategies attain better performance compared with intuitive benchmark schemes. Moreover, it is revealed that the position of the legitimate monitor plays an important role on the eavesdropping performance for the two strategies.
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In this paper, we consider a legitimate proactive eavesdropping scenario where a central monitor tries to intercept the information exchanged between a pair of suspicious entities through amplify-and-forward full- duplex relays and a cooperative jammer. Specifically, the eavesdropping relays simultaneously listen to the suspicious transmitter and forward the eavesdropped information to the central monitor. At the same time, the jammer broadcasts the jamming signal to maintain the suspicious data rate below the channel capacity of the central monitor so that the eavesdropped information can be successfully decoded by the central monitor. In this system, we jointly design the relay precoders at the eavesdropping relays and the transmit covariance matrix at the jammer to maximize the eavesdropping rate by a two-layer semi-definite relaxation approach. Simulation results verify the efficiency of our proposed solution and show considerable performance gains over conventional schemes.
This paper studies a legitimate proactive eavesdropping scenario where a central monitor covertly wiretaps the communications between suspicious users through a full-duplex multi-antenna relay. Specifically, the suspicious information is intercepted by the eavesdropping relay, and then encoded and forwarded to the central monitor. At the same time, the relay sends jamming signals to the suspect destination to reduce the quality of suspicious communication. To minimize the suspicious secrecy rate, the optimal forwarding and jamming beamforming vectors of the eavesdropping relay are first designed. Based on this optimized result, the best power allocation ratio is obtained. To this end, the optimal beamforming vectors and power allocation ratio are derived in closed-form. The simulation results verify the existence of the optimal forwarding power of the relay and show that the proposed scheme achieves better performance than the conventional schemes.