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Relay-Assisted Physical Layer Security with Generalized Weighted Fractional Fourier Transform

Xueqi Yin, Xiaojie Fang, Ge Song, Xuejun Sha

Published Dec 8, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

A novel physical layer security transmission scheme for relay-assisted systems is proposed, utilizing the generalized weighted fractional Fourier transform (GWFRFT). This scheme introduces a multi-component approach to enhance secure transmission, where signals are decomposed into four components with equal power distribution. Different signal components are transmitted by different relay nodes, resulting in the destination and eavesdroppers receiving a superposition of four non-orthogonal signal components. Precoding, combined with the self-interference properties of the components, significantly reduces the achievable rate of the eavesdropping channel, enhancing the secrecy rate. This scheme reduces the performance of eavesdroppers without additional power consumption or computational complexity. The results demonstrate improved security performance and reduced energy consumption compared to artificial noise-based secure transmission methods.

DOI
10.1109/gcwkshp64532.2024.11101138

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In this paper, we propose a novel user cooperation scheme based on weighted fractional Fourier transform (WFRFT), to enhance the physical (PHY) layer security of wireless transmissions against eavesdropping. Specifically, instead of dissipating additional transmission power for friendly jamming, by leveraging the features of WFRFT, the information bearing signal of cooperators can create an identical artificial noise effect at the eavesdropper while causing no performance degradation on the legitimate receiver. Furthermore, to form the cooperation set in an autonomous and distributed manner, we model WFRFT-based PHY-layer security cooperation problem as a coalitional game with non-transferable utility. A distributed merge-and-split algorithm is devised to facilitate the autonomous coalition formation to maximize the security capacity while accounting for the cooperation cost in terms of power consumption. We analyze the stability of the proposed algorithm and also investigate how the network topology efficiently adapts to the mobility of intermediate nodes. Simulation results demonstrate that the WFRFT-based user cooperation scheme leads to a significant performance advantage, in terms of secrecy ergodic capacity, compared with the conventional security-oriented user cooperation schemes, such as relay-jamming and cluster-beamforming.
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