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International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)

Friendly Jammer against an Adaptive Eavesdropper in a Relay-aided Network

J. E. Giti, Amin Sakzad, B. Srinivasan, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Raj Gaire

Published Jun 1, 2020• 3 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of information theoretic security for a single-input single-output (SISO) relay-aided network in the presence of an adaptive eavesdropper. We assess the impact of deceptive friendly jammers on the secrecy of communication in this network when countering adaptive eavesdroppers. Specifically, we derive the secrecy capacity and secrecy outage probability of the network and compare the results in the absence and presence of a deceptive friendly jammer. Our results show that the secrecy capacity of the network increases while the achievable secrecy outage probability decreases significantly in the presence of friendly jammer to nullify the effect of the adversary. Numerical results, obtained through computer simulations, under different scenarios of varying jamming power and average main channel gain to average eavesdropper channel gain ratio demonstrate the effectiveness of friendly jammer in providing physical layer security.

DOI
10.1109/iwcmc48107.2020.9148476

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