568 research outputs found
Optimal Power Allocation by Imperfect Hardware Analysis in Untrusted Relaying Networks
By taking a variety of realistic hardware imperfections into consideration,
we propose an optimal power allocation (OPA) strategy to maximize the
instantaneous secrecy rate of a cooperative wireless network comprised of a
source, a destination and an untrusted amplify-and-forward (AF) relay. We
assume that either the source or the destination is equipped with a large-scale
multiple antennas (LSMA) system, while the rest are equipped with a single
antenna. To prevent the untrusted relay from intercepting the source message,
the destination sends an intended jamming noise to the relay, which is referred
to as destination-based cooperative jamming (DBCJ). Given this system model,
novel closed-form expressions are presented in the high signal-to-noise ratio
(SNR) regime for the ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) and the secrecy outage
probability (SOP). We further improve the secrecy performance of the system by
optimizing the associated hardware design. The results reveal that by
beneficially distributing the tolerable hardware imperfections across the
transmission and reception radio-frequency (RF) front ends of each node, the
system's secrecy rate may be improved. The engineering insight is that equally
sharing the total imperfections at the relay between the transmitter and the
receiver provides the best secrecy performance. Numerical results illustrate
that the proposed OPA together with the most appropriate hardware design
significantly increases the secrecy rate.Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
Principles of Physical Layer Security in Multiuser Wireless Networks: A Survey
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer
security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of
physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over
a wireless medium in the presence of unauthorized eavesdroppers without relying
on higher-layer encryption. This can be achieved primarily in two ways: without
the need for a secret key by intelligently designing transmit coding
strategies, or by exploiting the wireless communication medium to develop
secret keys over public channels. The survey begins with an overview of the
foundations dating back to the pioneering work of Shannon and Wyner on
information-theoretic security. We then describe the evolution of secure
transmission strategies from point-to-point channels to multiple-antenna
systems, followed by generalizations to multiuser broadcast, multiple-access,
interference, and relay networks. Secret-key generation and establishment
protocols based on physical layer mechanisms are subsequently covered.
Approaches for secrecy based on channel coding design are then examined, along
with a description of inter-disciplinary approaches based on game theory and
stochastic geometry. The associated problem of physical-layer message
authentication is also introduced briefly. The survey concludes with
observations on potential research directions in this area.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, 303 refs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1303.1609 by other authors. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,
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Secure Two-Way Transmission via Wireless-Powered Untrusted Relay and External Jammer
In this paper, we propose a two-way secure communication scheme where two
transceivers exchange confidential messages via a wireless powered untrusted
amplify-and-forward (AF) relay in the presence of an external jammer. We take
into account both friendly jamming (FJ) and Gaussian noise jamming (GNJ)
scenarios. Based on the time switching (TS) architecture at the relay, the data
transmission is done in three phases. In the first phase, both the
energy-starved nodes, the untrustworthy relay and the jammer, are charged by
non-information radio frequency (RF) signals from the sources. In the second
phase, the two sources send their information signals and concurrently, the
jammer transmits artificial noise to confuse the curious relay. Finally, the
third phase is dedicated to forward a scaled version of the received signal
from the relay to the sources. For the proposed secure transmission schemes, we
derive new closed-form lower-bound expressions for the ergodic secrecy sum rate
(ESSR) in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. We further analyze the
asymptotic ESSR to determine the key parameters; the high SNR slope and the
high SNR power offset of the jamming based scenarios. To highlight the
performance advantage of the proposed FJ, we also examine the scenario of
without jamming (WoJ). Finally, numerical examples and discussions are provided
to acquire some engineering insights, and to demonstrate the impacts of
different system parameters on the secrecy performance of the considered
communication scenarios. The numerical results illustrate that the proposed FJ
significantly outperforms the traditional one-way communication and the
Constellation rotation approach, as well as our proposed benchmarks, the
two-way WoJ and GNJ scenarios.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technolog
Joint Relay Selection and Power Allocation in Large-Scale MIMO Systems with Untrusted Relays and Passive Eavesdroppers
In this paper, a joint relay selection and power allocation (JRP) scheme is
proposed to enhance the physical layer security of a cooperative network, where
a multiple antennas source communicates with a single-antenna destination in
presence of untrusted relays and passive eavesdroppers (Eves). The objective is
to protect the data confidentially while concurrently relying on the untrusted
relays as potential Eves to improve both the security and reliability of the
network. To realize this objective, we consider cooperative jamming performed
by the destination while JRP scheme is implemented. With the aim of maximizing
the instantaneous secrecy rate, we derive a new closed-form solution for the
optimal power allocation and propose a simple relay selection criterion under
two scenarios of non-colluding Eves (NCE) and colluding Eves (CE). For the
proposed scheme, a new closed-form expression is derived for the ergodic
secrecy rate (ESR) and the secrecy outage probability as security metrics, and
a new closed-form expression is presented for the average symbol error rate
(SER) as a reliability measure over Rayleigh fading channels. We further
explicitly characterize the high signal-to-noise ratio slope and power offset
of the ESR to highlight the impacts of system parameters on the ESR. In
addition, we examine the diversity order of the proposed scheme to reveal the
achievable secrecy performance advantage. Finally, the secrecy and reliability
diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of the optimized network are provided.
Numerical results highlight that the ESR performance of the proposed JRP scheme
for NCE and CE cases is increased with respect to the number of untrustworthy
relays.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security (In press
Efficient Power Allocation Schemes for Hybrid Decode-Amplify-Forward Relay Based Wireless Cooperative Network
Cooperative communication in various wireless domains, such as cellular networks, sensor networks and wireless ad hoc networks, has gained significant interest recently. In cooperative network, relays between the source and the destination, form a virtual MIMO that creates spatial diversity at the destination, which overcomes the fading effect of wireless channels. Such relay assisted schemes have potential to increase the channel capacity and network coverage. Most current research on cooperative communication are focused broadly on efficient protocol design and analysis, resource allocation, relay selection and cross layer optimization. The first part of this research aims at introducing hybrid decode-amplify-forward (HDAF) relaying in a distributed Alamouti coded cooperative network. Performance of such adaptive relaying scheme in terms of symbol error rate (SER), outage probability and average channel capacity is derived theoretically and verified through simulation based study. This work is further extended to a generalized multi HDAF relaying cooperative frame work. Various efficient power allocation schemes such as maximized channel capacity based, minimized SER based and total power minimization based are proposed and their superiority in performance over the existing equal power allocation scheme is demonstrated in the simulation results. Due to the broadcast nature of wireless transmission, information privacy in wireless networks becomes a critical issue. In the context of physical layer security, the role of multi HDAF relaying based cooperative model with control jamming and multiple eavesdroppers is explored in the second part of the research. Performance evaluation parameters such as secrecy rate, secrecy outage and intercept probability are derived theoretically. Further the importance of the proposed power allocation schemes in enhancing the secrecy performance of the network in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers is studied in detail through simulation based study and analysis. For all the proposed power allocation schemes in this research, the optimization problems are defined under total power constraint and are solved using Lagrange multiplier method and also evolutionary algorithms such as Differential evolution and Invasive Weed Optimization are employed. Monte Carlo simulation based study is adopted throughout the research. It is concluded that HDAF relaying based wireless cooperative network with optimal power allocation schemes offers improved and reliable performance compared to conventional amplify forward and decode forward relaying schemes. Above research contributions will be applicable for future generation wireless cooperative networks
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