In this paper, we investigate secure communication in a hybrid relay (HR)-assisted wireless powered cooperative communication network (WPCCN), where an eavesdropper tries to intercept the data transmitted by a source user and the HR simultaneously. The HR has the ability to wireless powered the energy-constrained multiple users in the downlink and to relay the received confidential information in the uplink. In particular, the full-duplex destination-based jamming (FD-DBJ) strategy is exploited to improve the secrecy performance. Moreover, in order to conduct effective secure communications, we design two multiuser scheduling schemes, i.e., random user selection (RUS), and best user selection (BUS) based on the main channel quality. In order to evaluate the secrecy performance, we analytically derive the energy outage probability (EOP), the secrecy outage probability (SOP), and the hybrid outage probability (HOP), respectively. As such, we formulate the secrecy throughput (ST) maximization problem to optimize the predetermined transmission rate. Our analysis and numerical results reveal that: 1) The BUS scheme has better security performance. 2) Both of the energy conversion efficiency and the number of users have a positive effect on secrecy performance. 3) The FD-DBJ scheme is an effective method to achieve secure communications. 4) The time-switching factor and predetermined transmission rate have a crucial influence on the secrecy performance, which should be considered carefully in system design.
In this paper, we investigate secure communication in a hybrid relay (HR)-assisted wireless powered cooperative communication network (WPCCN), where an eavesdropper tries to intercept the data transmitted by a source user and the HR simultaneously. The HR has the ability to wireless powered the energy-constrained multiple users in the downlink and to relay the received confidential information in the uplink. In particular, the full-duplex destination-based jamming (FD-DBJ) strategy is exploited to improve the secrecy performance. Moreover, in order to conduct effective secure communications, we design two multiuser scheduling schemes, i.e., random user selection (RUS), and best user selection (BUS) based on the main channel quality. In order to evaluate the secrecy performance, we analytically derive the energy outage probability (EOP), the secrecy outage probability (SOP), and the hybrid outage probability (HOP), respectively. As such, we formulate the secrecy throughput (ST) maximization problem to optimize the predetermined transmission rate. Our analysis and numerical results reveal that: 1) The BUS scheme has better security performance. 2) Both of the energy conversion efficiency and the number of users have a positive effect on secrecy performance. 3) The FD-DBJ scheme is an effective method to achieve secure communications. 4) The time-switching factor and predetermined transmission rate have a crucial influence on the secrecy performance, which should be considered carefully in system design.
This paper investigates secure transmission in a wireless powered cooperative communication network (WPCCN) over Nakagami-mfading channels, where multiple intermediate energy harvesting (EH) nodes with finite energy storage are deployed to assist the secure transmission between source and destination in the presence of an eavesdropper. Specifically, the intermediate EH nodes first harvest and accumulate energy from the source's signal and then forward the confidential signal or emit jamming signal to interfere the eavesdropper according to actual requirements. In order to exploit the intermediate EH nodes for secure improvement, considering both energy storage status and channel gains, three relay-and-jammer selection schemes at the intermediate nodes are proposed, namely: energy threshold based best-relay and random-jammer (ETBR), energy threshold based random-relay and best-jammer (ETRB), and energy threshold based best-relay and best-jammer (ETBB). For understanding the impact of critical parameters on the secrecy performance, we first capture the evolution of the EH nodes’ storages using finite-state Markov chain (FSMC) and then derive the analytical expressions for hybrid outage probability (HOP) and secrecy throughput (ST). Furthermore, numerical results demonstrate that our proposed selection schemes outperform the existing schemes (bR-rJ, rR-bJ, bR-bJ) due to the consideration of energy accumulation and storage status. In addition, there is a suitable value of the energy threshold for each proposed scheme to achieve the optimal secrecy performance.
In this paper, we investigate secure communication for a dual-hop multiuser relay network, where a source communication with N ( N ≥ 1 ) destinations via an untrusted variable gains relay. To exploit multiuser diversity while protecting source’s confidential message, we first propose a joint destination-based jamming and opportunistic scheduling (DJOS) scheme. Then, we derive closed-form approximated and asymptotic expressions of the secrecy outage probability (SOP) for the considered system with DJOS. Furthermore, we determine an asymptotical optimal power allocation (OPA), which minimizes the asymptotic SOP, to further improve the secrecy performance. Our analytical results show that the achievable secrecy diversity order in terms of SOP with fixed power allocation is min ( 1 , N 2 ) , whereas, with OPA, the achievable secrecy diversity order can be improved up to min ( 1 , 2 N N + 2 ) . This interesting result reveals that OPA can improve the secrecy diversity order of the single-user network. This is intuitive since full diversity order of 1 cannot be achieved when N = 1 , thus leaving some space for OPA to improve the diversity order. Nevertheless, for N ≥ 2 , the effect of OPA is to increase the secrecy array gain rather than the secrecy diversity order since full diversity order 1 has been achieved by the OS scheme. Finally, simulation results are presented to validate our analysis.
In this paper, we investigate opportunistic secure multiuser scheduling in energy harvesting untrusted relay networks, where an energy-constrained amplify-and-forward (AF) relay harvests energy from the received radio frequency signal via using the power splitting protocol. To exploit the potential advantages (e.g., multiuser diversity and direct links) for secrecy improvement, we examine three opportunistic user scheduling schemes, i.e., optimal scheduling scheme, maximum scheduling scheme, and minimum scheduling scheme. Specifically, the optimal scheduling scheme performs user selection by maximizing the ratio between the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) at the destination and the corresponding SNR at the untrusted relay. The maximum scheduling scheme is conventional user selection that maximizes the channel gain of the direct links. For the minimum scheduling scheme, we try to reduce the overheard information at the untrusted relay by selecting the user with the lowest channel gain of the relay links. For these three schemes, we comprehensively examine the achievable secrecy performance including probability of positive secrecy rate, secrecy outage probability (SOP), asymptotic SOP, secrecy throughput (ST), as well as secure energy efficiency (SEE) to help facilitate an energy-efficient secure transmission design. Simulation results demonstrate that the maximum scheduling scheme outperforms the minimum scheduling scheme in terms of SOP at relatively low SNRs and target secrecy rates.
In this paper, we study the secrecy performance of a wirelessly powered relay-aided system, where a pair of legal users (source-destination) communicate in the presence of multiple untrusted relays. All of the nodes mentioned above are energy constrained and powered by a dedicated power beacon (PB). To prevent the untrusted relays from intercepting the source message and to achieve positive secrecy rate, the destination-based cooperative jamming technique is employed. Besides, the optimal time allocation coefficient to maximize the secrecy throughput and the optimal transmit power of PB to maximize the secrecy energy efficiency are addressed. Specifically, three relay selection schemes with various requirements for channel state information (CSI), i.e., random relay selection, partial relay selection and optimal relay selection are also proposed to enhance the system security further. Finally, simulation results indicate the cooperative jamming technique indeed achieve positive secrecy rate and the proposed optimization strategies can improve the system performance.
This paper studies the secure communications of a wireless-powered full-duplex cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (CoNOMA) system with a source node, a group of near users, a far user and an external eavesdropper. In particular, the eavesdropper intends to wiretap the transmitted signals from the source. Two of the near users are picked up, served as a wireless-powered relay and a wireless friendly jammer, respectively. We propose a user selection and cooperative jamming based secure transmission scheme. Specifically, the source transmits a superimposed signal to the selected near user. The selected near user, who is employed as a relay, can harvest energy from the radio frequency signals and decode the information simultaneously. The harvested energy are then utilized to forward the signal to the far user. The jammer also collects energy from the source, and emits artificial noise by using the harvested energy to confuse the eavesdropper. Based on the proposed scheme, the closed-form expression for secrecy outage probability (SOP) and effective secrecy throughput (EST) are derived. The correctness of our theoretical analysis is verified by Monte-Carlo simulations, and the superiority of the proposed scheme in improving the system secure performance is also validated.
In this paper, the physical-layer security of a cooperative wireless system with multi-antenna full-duplex (FD) destination is examined. More specifically, we consider a cooperative transmission scenario in which a source communicates with a destination through a relay in the presence of an eavesdropper. In order to degrade the wiretap channel, the FD destination simultaneously transmits an interference signal towards the eavesdropper, while receiving information from the relay. A joint transmit and receive beamformer design is proposed to maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the destination, while guaranteeing that the SINR at the eavesdropper is below a certain threshold. We reformulate the optimization problem as a semidefinite relaxation problem in terms of a transmit beamforming matrix. To balance the performance and system complexity, we investigate suboptimum beamforming designs based on zero-forcing criterion. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the average secrecy rates of the proposed suboptimum designs. Our results reveal that optimum and suboptimum beamforming schemes along with friendly jamming significantly improve the secrecy performance. Moreover, simulation results demonstrate that the optimum scheme outperforms suboptimum schemes, especially in high transmit power regimes.