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Secure Short-Packet Multihop Communications with Friendly Jammers

Toan-Van Nguyen, Thai-Hoc Vu, Daniel Benevides da Costa, Duy H. N. Nguyen

Published Dec 8, 2024• 1 citation

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a best node and friendly jammer (bN-fJ) scheme for secure short-packet multi-hop communications in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. Under imperfect channel state information (CSI) conditions, the best IoT node is chosen for data transmission and a friendly jammer is chosen later to confuse the received signals at a multi-antenna eavesdropper. Approximate and asymptotic closed-form expressions for the secrecy throughput of the bN-fJ scheme are obtained, offering valuable insights into the system designs. Numerical results show that the proposed bN-fJ scheme achieves much better performance than benchmarking schemes, especially with 1 more bit/channel use and 9.4 dB enhancement in communication reliability measure. Moreover, under imperfect CSI and large antennas at the eavesdropper, the secrecy throughput and communication reliability of the system can be improved by employing the proposed node selection, e.g., a 12.5 dB improvement at 10 antennas at Eve and the imperfect CSI of 0.8. Finally, the secrecy throughput is presented as a concave curve for the number of hops and blocklengths, which enables us to identify the optimal hops and blocklength for secure multi-hop short-packet transmissions.

DOI: 10.1109/globecom52923.2024.10901742

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