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IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

Secrecy Analysis of Underlay CRN in the Presence of Correlated and Imperfect Channel

Shilpa Thakur, Ajay Singh, Sudhan Majhi

Published Jan 31, 2023• 14 citations
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Abstract

The presence of correlated and imperfect channel state information (CSI) affects the secrecy performance of cognitive radio networks (CRN). In this paper, we propose a physical layer security analysis of underlay CRN in terms of secrecy outage probability (SOP), average secrecy rate (ASR), and amount of secrecy loss (ASL). Closed forms of SOP, ASR, and ASL are provided over imperfect CSI of Rayleigh fading environment where the legitimate channel is correlated with the eavesdropper channel. The analytical results are compared with the simulation results. The work is also compared with existing work. It has been observed that the secrecy performance of the network improves as peak interference power increases, and the correlation positively impacts the secrecy performance at a medium-to-high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); however, it degrades the data security capability of the network at low SNR. Furthermore, asymptotic analysis shows that the secrecy performance of the network improves with the growing correlation between legitimate and eavesdropper channels when the SNR of the legitimate channel is much higher than that of the eavesdropper channel, whereas secrecy performance decreases with a reducing correlation when the SNR of the legitimate channel is approximately equal to SNR of eavesdropper channel.

DOI
10.1109/tccn.2023.3241156

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This work explores the physical layer security of an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) in the presence of a powerful interferer called a primary transmitter (PT) under peak interference power constraint. Under this scenario, the secondary transmitter (Alice) transmits secret information on a single antenna with the highest signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) to a legitimate receiver (Bob), and an eavesdropper (Eve) attempts to intercept that information. Depending upon the availability of channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper channel, we investigate the secrecy performance of the proposed network in the Rayleigh fading environment for both passive and active eavesdropping scenarios. We obtain analytical expressions for the secrecy outage probability, intercept probability, andϵ\epsilonϵ-outage secrecy capacity in a passive eavesdropping scenario. A complete investigation of the average secrecy capacity (ASC) has been made, and novel expressions for the exact and asymptotic ASC have been obtained for active eavesdropping. Bolstering these results, we also define a high SINR power offset, which quantifies the significance of main system parameters on the ASC explicitly. Further, the effect of outdated CSI of Alice to primary receiver link on the various performance metrics with the concept of interference-outage is also studied.
In this paper, the physical layer security in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is investigated. We consider an underlay relay assisted CRN consisting of multiple secondary sources, multiple-antenna destination, a single relay, and multiple eavesdroppers. The destination node performs the maximal-ratio combining under uncorrelated Rayleigh fading channels. In more details, we consider, a secondary source is randomly selected to transmit its data, and a jammer is chosen from the remaining source nodes to send a jamming signal to the eavesdroppers. The closed-form expression of the secrecy outage probability is derived, based on the statistical characteristics of the communication channels, under the primary user's quality of service constraint. The derived analysis gives deep insights into the impact of network parameters on the performance of on the secrecy outage performance. Analytic results are corroborated through Monte Carlo simulation.
In this paper, we consider a multi-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying transmission in underlay cognitive radio networks. Considering the presence of an eavesdropper that overhears the transmission, we address secure communications of multi-hop wireless communications in terms of physical layer security. In addition, we take in to account the effect of imperfect channel state information (CSI) which is of importance issue in underlay cognitive radio. We analyze the secrecy outage performance of the system over Rayleigh fading channels. In particular, we derive the closed-form expression of the system secrecy outage probability. The analysis results are validated by the Monte-Carlo simulation results. The numerical results show that the imperfect CSI issue does not effect on the security issue of the transmission in underlay cognitive radio networks. On the other hand, the number of hops plays a key role in the physical layer security.
In this paper, we investigate the secrecy outage probability (SOP) for the cooperative decode-and-forward (DF) underlay cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Duo to the spectrum sharing approach in underlay CRNs, the secondary transmitters (secondary source (SUS) and secondary relay (SUR)) are subjected to interference power constraint at primary user (PU), and the SU receivers (SURand secondary destination (SUD)) suffer from the co-channel interferences (CCIs) from PU. We focus on the practical scenario where the SU transmitter has no channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper's channel. Interference-power-confined selection scheme is proposed for the cooperative DF CRNs in the presence of an eavesdropper. The proposed scheme selects the “best” terminal (SUSor SUR) to enhance the secure performance which must firstly satisfy the interference power constraint. What's more, the effect of feedback delay on the selection scheme is studied. We derive an exact closed-form expression for the SOP. Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis and show that the proposed selection scheme determinately enhance the performance, and feedback delay decreases the SOP seriously, specially, the interference power constraint hugely confine the SOP.
This study investigates the secrecy outage performance of a single‐input multiple‐output underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) with outdated channel state information (CSI). The confidential messages are transmitted from transmitter to the destination, while a multi‐antenna eavesdropper exists. The maximal ratio combining and selection combining schemes are utilised at the receivers to improve the quality of the received signal‐to‐noise ratio. The exact and asymptotic closed‐form expressions of secrecy outage probability are derived, and simulation results are provided to verify the authors' proposed analytical results. The results reveal that imperfect CSI of main channels deteriorates the secrecy outage performance while that of eavesdropping and interfering channels has contrary effect, and only a unity diversity order can be obtained in underlay CRNs with imperfect CSI.
In this paper, we investigate the secrecy outage performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) over Rayleigh fading channels. In a single input multiple output wiretap system, we consider a secondary user SU-TX transmits confidential messages to another secondary user SU-RX equipped with K (K>1) antennas while MRC technique is adopted to improve its received signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, an eavesdropper exists to overhear the information between SU-TX and SU-RX. SU-TX adopts the underlay strategy to meet the quality of service of the primary user without spectrum sensing. In this paper, we derive the closed-form expressions for the secrecy outage probability and the probability of nonzero secrecy capacity of MRC scheme in CRNs over Rayleigh fading channels. Simulations are conducted to validate the accuracy of our proposed analytical models.