272 research outputs found
Physical-Layer Security with Multiuser Scheduling in Cognitive Radio Networks
In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio network that consists of one
cognitive base station (CBS) and multiple cognitive users (CUs) in the presence
of multiple eavesdroppers, where CUs transmit their data packets to CBS under a
primary user's quality of service (QoS) constraint while the eavesdroppers
attempt to intercept the cognitive transmissions from CUs to CBS. We
investigate the physical-layer security against eavesdropping attacks in the
cognitive radio network and propose the user scheduling scheme to achieve
multiuser diversity for improving the security level of cognitive transmissions
with a primary QoS constraint. Specifically, a cognitive user (CU) that
satisfies the primary QoS requirement and maximizes the achievable secrecy rate
of cognitive transmissions is scheduled to transmit its data packet. For the
comparison purpose, we also examine the traditional multiuser scheduling and
the artificial noise schemes. We analyze the achievable secrecy rate and
intercept probability of the traditional and proposed multiuser scheduling
schemes as well as the artificial noise scheme in Rayleigh fading environments.
Numerical results show that given a primary QoS constraint, the proposed
multiuser scheduling scheme generally outperforms the traditional multiuser
scheduling and the artificial noise schemes in terms of the achievable secrecy
rate and intercept probability. In addition, we derive the diversity order of
the proposed multiuser scheduling scheme through an asymptotic intercept
probability analysis and prove that the full diversity is obtained by using the
proposed multiuser scheduling.Comment: 12 pages. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 201
Relay Selection for Wireless Communications Against Eavesdropping: A Security-Reliability Tradeoff Perspective
This article examines the secrecy coding aided wireless communications from a
source to a destination in the presence of an eavesdropper from a
security-reliability tradeoff (SRT) perspective. Explicitly, the security is
quantified in terms of the intercept probability experienced at the
eavesdropper, while the outage probability encountered at the destination is
used to measure the transmission reliability. We characterize the SRT of
conventional direct transmission from the source to the destination and show
that if the outage probability is increased, the intercept probability
decreases, and vice versa. We first demonstrate that the employment of relay
nodes for assisting the source-destination transmissions is capable of
defending against eavesdropping, followed by quantifying the benefits of
single-relay selection (SRS) as well as of multi-relay selection (MRS) schemes.
More specifically, in the SRS scheme, only the single "best" relay is selected
for forwarding the source signal to the destination, whereas the MRS scheme
allows multiple relays to participate in this process. It is illustrated that
both the SRS and MRS schemes achieve a better SRT than the conventional direct
transmission, especially upon increasing the number of relays. Numerical
results also show that as expected, the MRS outperforms the SRS in terms of its
SRT. Additionally, we present some open challenges and future directions for
the wireless relay aided physical-layer security.Comment: 16 pages, IEEE Network, 201
Secrecy Outage and Diversity Analysis of Cognitive Radio Systems
In this paper, we investigate the physical-layer security of a multi-user
multi-eavesdropper cognitive radio system, which is composed of multiple
cognitive users (CUs) transmitting to a common cognitive base station (CBS),
while multiple eavesdroppers may collaborate with each other or perform
independently in intercepting the CUs-CBS transmissions, which are called the
coordinated and uncoordinated eavesdroppers, respectively. Considering multiple
CUs available, we propose the round-robin scheduling as well as the optimal and
suboptimal user scheduling schemes for improving the security of CUs-CBS
transmissions against eavesdropping attacks. Specifically, the optimal user
scheduling is designed by assuming that the channel state information (CSI) of
all links from CUs to CBS, to primary user (PU) and to eavesdroppers are
available. By contrast, the suboptimal user scheduling only requires the CSI of
CUs-CBS links without the PU's and eavesdroppers' CSI. We derive closed-form
expressions of the secrecy outage probability of these three scheduling schemes
in the presence of the coordinated and uncoordinated eavesdroppers. We also
carry out the secrecy diversity analysis and show that the round-robin
scheduling achieves the diversity order of only one, whereas the optimal and
suboptimal scheduling schemes obtain the full secrecy diversity, no matter
whether the eavesdroppers collaborate or not. In addition, numerical secrecy
outage results demonstrate that for both the coordinated and uncoordinated
eavesdroppers, the optimal user scheduling achieves the best security
performance and the round-robin scheduling performs the worst. Finally, upon
increasing the number of CUs, the secrecy outage probabilities of the optimal
and suboptimal user scheduling schemes both improve significantly.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, accepted to appear, IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, 201
Security versus Reliability Analysis of Opportunistic Relaying
Physical-layer security is emerging as a promising paradigm of securing
wireless communications against eavesdropping between legitimate users, when
the main link spanning from source to destination has better propagation
conditions than the wiretap link from source to eavesdropper. In this paper, we
identify and analyze the tradeoffs between the security and reliability of
wireless communications in the presence of eavesdropping attacks. Typically,
the reliability of the main link can be improved by increasing the source's
transmit power (or decreasing its date rate) to reduce the outage probability,
which unfortunately increases the risk that an eavesdropper succeeds in
intercepting the source message through the wiretap link, since the outage
probability of the wiretap link also decreases when a higher transmit power (or
lower date rate) is used. We characterize the security-reliability tradeoffs
(SRT) of conventional direct transmission from source to destination in the
presence of an eavesdropper, where the security and reliability are quantified
in terms of the intercept probability by an eavesdropper and the outage
probability experienced at the destination, respectively. In order to improve
the SRT, we then propose opportunistic relay selection (ORS) and quantify the
attainable SRT improvement upon increasing the number of relays. It is shown
that given the maximum tolerable intercept probability, the outage probability
of our ORS scheme approaches zero for , where is the number
of relays. Conversely, given the maximum tolerable outage probability, the
intercept probability of our ORS scheme tends to zero for .Comment: 9 pages. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 201
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,
201
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
A Survey on Wireless Security: Technical Challenges, Recent Advances and Future Trends
This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the
inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense
mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the
security requirements of wireless networks, including their authenticity,
confidentiality, integrity and availability issues. Next, a comprehensive
overview of security attacks encountered in wireless networks is presented in
view of the network protocol architecture, where the potential security threats
are discussed at each protocol layer. We also provide a survey of the existing
security protocols and algorithms that are adopted in the existing wireless
network standards, such as the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the long-term
evolution (LTE) systems. Then, we discuss the state-of-the-art in
physical-layer security, which is an emerging technique of securing the open
communications environment against eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer.
We also introduce the family of various jamming attacks and their
counter-measures, including the constant jammer, intermittent jammer, reactive
jammer, adaptive jammer and intelligent jammer. Additionally, we discuss the
integration of physical-layer security into existing authentication and
cryptography mechanisms for further securing wireless networks. Finally, some
technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are
summarized and the future trends in wireless security are discussed.Comment: 36 pages. Accepted to Appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 201
Secrecy performance analysis on spatial modeling of wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicle and ground devices
In this paper, the secrecy performance of the spatial modeling for ground devices with randomly placed eavesdroppers when an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) acted as two hops decode and forward (DF) was investigated. We characterize the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and intercept probability (IP) expressions. Our capacity performance analysis is based on the Rayleigh fading distributions. After analytical results by Monte Carlo simulation, and the Gauss-Chebyshev parameter was selected to yield a close approximation, the results demonstrate the SOP with the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) between UAV and ground users among the eavesdroppers and the IP relationship with the ability to intercept the information of the ground users successfully
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