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Secrecy Performance Analysis of Cooperative Nonorthogonal Multiple Access in IoT Networks

Ashish Rauniyar, Olav N. Østerbø, Jan Erik Håkegård, Paal Einar Engelstad

Published Aug 23, 2022• 9 citations

Abstract

Differentsystemmodels utilizing nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been successfully studied to meet the growing capacity demands of the Internet of Things IoT) devices for the next-generation networks. However, analyzing the antieavesdropping for NOMA systems under different scenarios and settings still needs further exploration before it can be practically deployed. Therefore, in this article, we study the secrecy performance of a cooperative NOMA system in the IoT networks where two source nodes communicate with their respective destination nodes via a common relay in the presence of an eavesdropper. Specifically, two source nodes send their data in parallel over the same frequency band to the common relay node using uplink NOMA. Then, the relay node forwards the decoded symbols to the respective destination nodes using downlink NOMA in the presence of an eavesdropper. To enhance the security performance of the considered system, we study and propose an artificial noise (AN)-aided scheme in which the two destination nodes emit a jamming signal to confuse the eavesdropper while receiving the signal from the common relay node. We also study the effect of NOMA power allocation, perfect successive interference cancellation (pSIC), and imperfect successive interference cancellation (ipSIC) on the considered system. Analytical expressions for the ergodic capacity (EC), ergodic secrecy sum rate (ESSR), and secrecy outage probability (SOP) are mathematically derived and verified with the simulation results. Our results demonstrate that a significantly higher ESSR and lower SOP of the system can be attained compared to a conventional NOMA system without a destination-assisted jamming signal scheme.

DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2022.3199540

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