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Exploiting Secrecy Performance of Uplink NOMA in Cellular Networks

Minh‐Sang Van Nguyen, Dinh‐Thuan Do, Fatemeh Afghah, S. M. Riazul Islam, Anh‐Tu Le

Published Jan 1, 2021• 19 citations
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Abstract

We study the secrecy transmission of uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with single antenna and multi-antenna users in presence of an eavesdropper. Two phases are required for communications during each time frame between the users and the base station in cellular networks. We study the case where an eavesdropper overhears the relay and direct links from the users to the base stations. In terms of the secure performance analysis, we focus on two main metrics including secrecy outage probability (SOP) and strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC) with the assumption that the eavesdropper is able to detect the signals. Analytical closed-form expressions for the SOP and SPSC are derived to evaluate the system secure performance achieved by the proposed schemes. Furthermore, the asymptotic analysis is presented to gain further insights. The analytical and numerical results indicate that the proposed schemes can realize better secrecy performance once we improve the channel condition and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the base station. Our results confirms that the secrecy performance gaps exist among the two users since different power allocation factors are assigned to these users.

DOI
10.1109/access.2021.3092830

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The secrecy outage probability (SOP) performance is investigated for a cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access system under eavesdropping attack, where a base station transmits signals to a far user via a full-duplex relay, and to a near user directly at the same time, in the presence of an eavesdropper. All nodes are configured with multiple antennas and antenna selection is adopted by the base station and relay to enhance the security performance. The exact and asymptotic closed-form SOP expressions are derived, which incorporate the impact of imperfect channel state information and apply to general cases considering the quality of service of the far and near users, whether or not the wiretap channel is known, and the location of the eavesdropper. Monte Carlo simulations corroborate the analysis and the superiority of the proposed system over the single-antenna system and the one without antenna selection. It is also revealed that the asymptotic SOP performance of the near user is nearly independent of the power allocation.
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In this paper, we analyze the outage probability and secrecy capacity of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system in the presence of an eavesdropper. In order to enhance spectral efficiency, a base station communicates with two users simultaneously in the same frequency band by superpimposing the transmit signals to the users in the power domain. Specifically, the user with the worse channel conditions is allocated higher power such that it is able to directly decode its signal from the received superimposed signal. At the user with the better channel conditions, the interference due to NOMA is processed by successive interference cancelation. Given these system settings and accounting for decoding thresholds, we analyze the outage probability of the NOMA system over Rayleigh fading channels. Furthermore, based on the locations of the users and eavesdropper, the secrecy capacity is analyzed to assess the level of security provided to the legitimate users in the presence of an eavesdropper. Here, the decoding thresholds of legitimate users and eavesdropper are also included in the analysis of the secrecy capacity. Through numerical results, the effects of network parameters on system performance are assessed as well as the the superiority of NOMA in terms of secrecy capacity over traditional orthogonal multiple access.
This paper investigates the physical-layer security (PLS) aspects of the uplink cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in the context of two user scenario. More specifically, this work employs the decode-and-forward (DF) relay for not only establishing a connection between the far user and base station (BS) but also enhancing the performance of far user whose channel is prone to the detrimental effects of fading and shadowing. The secrecy performance comparison between two users i.e., near user and far user is obtained under perfect and imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) assumptions and even the performance of FU is improved by using DF relay and instantaneous channel gain decoding order is considered at the BS under two cases. This paper analyses the performance of cooperative uplink NOMA network in the presence of an external eavesdropper in terms of secrecy ergodic capacity (SEC), secrecy ergodic sum capacity (SESC), and secrecy outage probability (SOP). This work derives the closed-form analytical expressions of SOP and SEC metrics for both strong and weak users with perfect and imperfect SIC cases in order to characterise the secrecy performance of the proposed secure cooperative NOMA network. Further, the outcomes of the simulations are shown as evidence for both the validation of the mathematical analysis and the performance of the proposed method.