With the fast developing of Health-IoT supported by massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) of 5G, personal physiological data of patients endure various malicious attacks from intelligent eavesdropper during the transmission procedure. The leakage of patients' data will threaten their personal information security. In this paper, we propose a hybrid Relay Selection and Cooperative Jamming (RS-CJ) scheme to resist intelligent eavesdroppers in the sensor network tier in Healthcare-IoT systems. In the hybrid RS-CJ scheme, the relay is adaptively selected from bio-sensors before the physical data are transmitted, and the unselected bio-sensors act as friendly jammers. Moreover, we derived the security capacity of the legitimate and eavesdropping channels under the RS-CJ scheme. Then, we obtained the closed-form expressions of the Ergodic Achievable Security Rate (EASR). We also analyzed the negative influence on EASR when the intelligent eavesdropper holds different active jamming power. The simulation results verify the correctness of EASR, and our proposed RS-CJ scheme is feasible in general Healthcare-IoT systems. Compared with related solutions, EASR of the proposed hybrid RS-CJ scheme is 64% higher than the existing relay selection and interference scheme, as well as 3.38 times higher than that of the optional relay selection scheme proposed by other scholars.
With the fast developing of Health-IoT supported by massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) of 5G, personal physiological data of patients endure various malicious attacks from intelligent eavesdropper during the transmission procedure. The leakage of patients' data will threaten their personal information security. In this paper, we propose a hybrid Relay Selection and Cooperative Jamming (RS-CJ) scheme to resist intelligent eavesdroppers in the sensor network tier in Healthcare-IoT systems. In the hybrid RS-CJ scheme, the relay is adaptively selected from bio-sensors before the physical data are transmitted, and the unselected bio-sensors act as friendly jammers. Moreover, we derived the security capacity of the legitimate and eavesdropping channels under the RS-CJ scheme. Then, we obtained the closed-form expressions of the Ergodic Achievable Security Rate (EASR). We also analyzed the negative influence on EASR when the intelligent eavesdropper holds different active jamming power. The simulation results verify the correctness of EASR, and our proposed RS-CJ scheme is feasible in general Healthcare-IoT systems. Compared with related solutions, EASR of the proposed hybrid RS-CJ scheme is 64% higher than the existing relay selection and interference scheme, as well as 3.38 times higher than that of the optional relay selection scheme proposed by other scholars.
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) spans various applications in healthcare filed, from smart wearable or implantable sensors to remote monitoring of elderly, and medical device networking. In this paper, a jamming-resistant scheme for the healthcare IoT is proposed to provide secure and reliable data transmission in a two-hop cooperative network, where a source communicates with a destination in the presence of an untrusted relay and an active adversary. The untrusted relay is an authorized necessary helper who may wiretap the confidential information, e.g., the secret measured data of a patient, while the jammer is an external attacker who tries to interrupt the communication. Different from traditional frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) techniques that require a pre-determined pattern between communicating nodes, in our proposed scheme, the source an destination enjoy the local observations of the two-hop channel exploited as the source of common randomness to generate shared secret keys, which facilitates secure communication. To obtain the shared FHSS sequence, a three-phase key generation scheme with minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimators is implemented. For the proposed FHSS-based scheme, we derive new closed-form expressions for characterizing the achievable secret key rate (SKR) to highlight the efficiency of our proposed scheme compared to the state-of-the-arts. Finally, several numerical examples and discussions are presented to gain engineering insights behind the studied communication scenario.
In this paper, we investigate joint relay and jammer selection in two-way cooperative networks, consisting of two sources, a number of intermediate nodes, and one eavesdropper, with the constraints of physical layer security. Specifically, the proposed algorithms select two or three intermediate nodes to enhance security against the malicious eavesdropper. The first selected node operates in the conventional relay mode and assists the sources to deliver their data to the corresponding destinations using an amplify-and-forward protocol. The second and third nodes are used in different communication phases as jammers in order to create intentional interference upon the eavesdropper node. Firstly, we find that in a topology where the intermediate nodes are randomly and sparsely distributed, the proposed schemes with cooperative jamming outperform the conventional non-jamming schemes within a certain transmitted power regime. We also find that, in the scenario in which the intermediate nodes gather as a close cluster, the jamming schemes may be less effective than their non-jamming counterparts. Therefore, we introduce a hybrid scheme to switch between jamming and non-jamming modes. Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis and show that the hybrid switching scheme further improves the secrecy rate.
In this paper, we investigate joint relay and jammer selection in two-way cooperative networks, consisting of two sources, a number of intermediate nodes, and one eavesdropper, with the constraints of physical-layer security. Specifically, the proposed algorithms select two or three intermediate nodes to enhance security against the malicious eavesdropper. The first selected node operates in the conventional relay mode and assists the sources to deliver their data to the corresponding destinations using an amplify-and-forward protocol. The second and third nodes are used in different communication phases as jammers in order to create intentional interference upon the malicious eavesdropper. First, we find that in a topology where the intermediate nodes are randomly and sparsely distributed, the proposed schemes with cooperative jamming outperform the conventional nonjamming schemes within a certain transmitted power regime. We also find that, in the scenario where the intermediate nodes gather as a close cluster, the jamming schemes may be less effective than their nonjamming counterparts. Therefore, we introduce a hybrid scheme to switch between jamming and nonjamming modes. Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis and show that the hybrid switching scheme further improves the secrecy rate.
In this paper, we investigate joint relay and jammer selection in two-way cooperative networks, consisting of two sources, one eavesdropper, and a number of intermediate nodes, with secrecy constraints. Specifically, the proposed schemes select two or three intermediate nodes to enhance security against the malicious eavesdropper. The first selected node operates in the conventional relay mode and assists the two sources to exchange data with each other in the amplify-and-forward protocol. The second and third selected nodes are used in different communication phases as jammers in order to create intentional interference upon the eavesdropper. We find that in a scenario where the relay and jamming nodes are randomly and sparsely distributed, the proposed schemes with cooperative jamming outperform the conventional non-jamming schemes within a certain transmitted power range. We also find that, in a scenario where the intermediate nodes gather as a close cluster, the cooperative jamming schemes may be less effective than their non-jamming counterparts. Therefore, we introduce a hybrid scheme to switch between jamming and non-jamming modes. Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis that the hybrid switching scheme further improves the secrecy rate.
In this paper, secure transmission is considered in a wireless relay network in the presence of an eavesdropper. A novel hybrid relay scheme, named as relaying-and-jamming (RJ), is advocated to achieve information theoretical security. In the RJ scheme, the relay node is equipped with multiple antennas. It responses for two missions: re-transmitting the information signal from source code and broadcasting the jamming signal to degrade eavesdropper's channel. The objective of this paper is to maximize the achievable ergodic secrecy rate. We are interested in the scenario that eavesdropper's instant channel state information (CSI) is unknown, in which the ergodic secrecy rate expression is derived. The optimal power allocation between information signal and jamming signal at the relay node is found statistically to achieve the largest ergodic secrecy rate. Simulation is carefully designed and respective results are presented to confirm the theoretical analysis and compare with existing work.
In this paper, we investigate joint relay and jammer selection in two-way cooperative networks, consisting of two sources, a number of intermediate nodes, and one eavesdropper, with secrecy constraints. Specifically, the proposed algorithms select two or three intermediate nodes to enhance security against the malicious eavesdropper. The first selected node operates in the conventional relay mode and assists the sources to deliver their data to the corresponding destinations via the amplify-and-forward protocol. The second and third nodes are used in different communication phases as jammers in order to create intentional interference upon the eavesdropper node. Firstly, we find that in a topology where the relay and jamming nodes are randomly and sparsely distributed, the proposed schemes with cooperative jamming outperforms the conventional non-jamming schemes within a certain transmitted power regime. We also find that, in the scenario in which the intermediate nodes gather as a close cluster, the jamming schemes may be less effective than their non-jamming counterparts. Therefore, we introduce a hybrid scheme to switch between jamming and non-jamming modes. Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis that the hybrid switching scheme further improves the secrecy rate.