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Physical Layer Security Performance Analysis of Hybrid FSO/RF Communication System

Wafaa Mohammed Ridha Shakir

Published Dec 31, 2020• 37 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, the secrecy performance of the physical layer security (PLS) of the hybrid free-space optical/radio frequency (FSO/RF) communication system is analyzed. The transmission protocol of the considered system is performed under the eavesdropper's attempt to overhear the RF link between the transmitter and legitimate receiver of the hybrid system. The FSO link is characterized by Málaga-M distribution while the RF links are modeled by Nakagami-m distribution. The two practical eavesdropping modes considered in this paper include: colluding and non-colluding. Exact closed-form expressions for the system's secrecy outage probability (SOP), the asymptotic of the SOP (SOP∞), the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC), the average secrecy capacity (ASC), and the asymptotic of the ASC (ASC∞), are specifically derived under the influence of both eavesdropper modes. Our derived analytical expressions present an efficient tool to investigate the impact of some channel parameters on the secrecy performance, namely the fading severity of the RF links, atmospheric turbulence severity, pointing error of the FSO link, number of eavesdroppers, and the power of the eavesdropper links. The results show that the increase of the eavesdroppers' number under both modes profoundly degrades the considered system secrecy performance. The accuracy of the numerical results obtained is validated by Monte-Carlo simulations.

DOI
10.1109/access.2020.3048614

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This paper analyzes the physical layer secrecy (PLS) performance of a hybrid free space optical and radio frequency (FSO/RF) communication system under a modified selection combining scheme. The transmission scheme takes into account secrecy performance as well as diversity gain and ease of implementation. The effects of FSO link, namely the FSO atmospheric turbulence and the FSO receiver pointing error, are included in the analysis while the power amplifier (PA) inefficiency for the RF transmission is considered to have more realistic understandings on the system performance. The exact analytical expressions for the performance indicators including the average secrecy capacity (ASC) and secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the investigated mixed FSO/RF system are derived. The asymptotic SOP analysis reveals useful insights into the performance of the investigated mixed system. Analytical and simulation results are presented to evaluate the PLS performance of the proposed mixed system as well as to compare the performance of other hybrid systems with different setups.
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Hybrid Free-Space Optical (FSO) and millimeter Wave (mmWave) systems have emerged as a promising candidate for high data rate wireless transmissions due to the unique complementary properties against the different channel and environment conditions. Consequently, in this study, we investigate the hybrid FSO-mmWave systems from a physical-layer security point of view in the presence of different types of eavesdroppers, where the communication between two legitimate peers takes place over both FSO and RF links simultaneously. In particular, exponential atmospheric turbulence and Weibull fading channels are considered for FSO and mmWave links, respectively. We examine practical scenarios to eavesdrop the legitimate communication, and discuss the effects of random radio power of mmWave link and optical irradiance of FSO link on the probability of achieving a secure transmission. The impact of the fundamental physical layer parameters on the secrecy performance of the hybrid system is analyzed by obtaining analytical derivations of the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC) for different types of eavesdroppers, namely RF-, FSO- and Hybrid-Eve. In the light of results, we show that the analytical expressions are in exact agreement with the Monte-Carlo simulations.
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