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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
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
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
Markov Decision Processes with Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of autonomous and resource-limited
devices. The devices cooperate to monitor one or more physical phenomena within
an area of interest. WSNs operate as stochastic systems because of randomness
in the monitored environments. For long service time and low maintenance cost,
WSNs require adaptive and robust methods to address data exchange, topology
formulation, resource and power optimization, sensing coverage and object
detection, and security challenges. In these problems, sensor nodes are to make
optimized decisions from a set of accessible strategies to achieve design
goals. This survey reviews numerous applications of the Markov decision process
(MDP) framework, a powerful decision-making tool to develop adaptive algorithms
and protocols for WSNs. Furthermore, various solution methods are discussed and
compared to serve as a guide for using MDPs in WSNs
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