scholarly journals Security–reliability tradeoff analysis of untrusted energy harvesting relay networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 155014771875472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dechuan Chen ◽  
Weiwei Yang ◽  
Jianwei Hu ◽  
Weifeng Mou ◽  
Yueming Cai
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Outage Probability ◽  
Relay Networks ◽  
Secrecy Outage Probability ◽  
Power Splitting ◽  
Amplify And Forward ◽  
Time Switching ◽  
Radio Frequency Signals ◽  
Secrecy Outage ◽  
Analytical Expressions

We investigate secure communications in untrusted energy harvesting relay networks, where the amplify-and-forward relay is an energy constrained node powered by the received radio frequency signals, and try to unauthorizedly decode the confidential information from the source. The secrecy outage probability and connection outage probability are respectively derived in closed-form to evaluate the security and reliability for three energy harvesting strategies, for example, time switching relaying strategy, power splitting relaying strategy, and ideal relaying receiver strategy. Subsequently, the effective secrecy throughput is conducted to characterize the overall efficiency, and the asymptotic analysis of the secrecy throughput is given to determine the optimal energy harvesting strategies in different operating regimes. Furthermore, in order to achieve the optimal effective secrecy throughput performance, a switching threshold between time switching relaying and power splitting relaying is designed. Numerical results verify the accuracy of the analytical expressions and reveal that the effective secrecy throughput of the system can be effectively promoted by the threshold switching energy harvesting strategy.

scholarly journals Joint Source and Relay Beamforming Design in Wireless Multi-Hop Sensor Networks with SWIPT

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoqing Liu ◽  
Zhigang Wen ◽  
Dan Liu ◽  
Junwei Zou ◽  
Shan Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
The Other ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Power Splitting ◽  
Amplify And Forward ◽  
Time Switching ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Convex Problem ◽  
Input Multiple Output

We consider a multiple-input multiple-output amplify-and-forward wireless multiple-hop sensor network (WMSN). The simultaneous wireless information and power transfer technology is deployed to potentially achieve an autonomous system. We investigate two practical receiver schemes, which are the power splitting (PS) and the time switching (TS). The power splitting receiver splits received signals into two streams, one for information decoding (ID) and the other for energy harvesting (EH). On the other hand, the time switching receiver only serves in ID mode or energy harvesting mode during a certain time slot. Subject to transmit power constraints and destination harvested energy constraint, we aim to obtain a joint beam-forming solution of source and relay precoders to maximize the maximum achievable rate of the WSN. In order to make the non-convex problem tractable, diagonalization-based alternating optimization algorithms are proposed. Numerical results show the convergence and good performance of the proposed algorithms under both PS and TS protocols.

scholarly journals A Study of Physical Layer Security in SWIPT-Based Decode-and-Forward Relay Networks with Dynamic Power Splitting

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5692
Author(s):  
Van-Duc Phan ◽  
Tan N. Nguyen ◽  
Anh Vu Le ◽  
Miroslav Voznak
Keyword(s):  
Outage Probability ◽  
Physical Layer Security ◽  
Physical Layer ◽  
Secrecy Outage Probability ◽  
Power Splitting ◽  
Decode And Forward ◽  
Dynamic Power ◽  
Secrecy Outage ◽  
Multiple Relay ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we study the physical layer security for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-based half-duplex (HD) decode-and-forward relaying system. We consider a system model including one transmitter that tries to transmit information to one receiver under the help of multiple relay users and in the presence of one eavesdropper that attempts to overhear the confidential information. More specifically, to investigate the secrecy performance, we derive closed-form expressions of outage probability (OP) and secrecy outage probability for dynamic power splitting-based relaying (DPSBR) and static power splitting-based relaying (SPSBR) schemes. Moreover, the lower bound of secrecy outage probability is obtained when the source’s transmit power goes to infinity. The Monte Carlo simulations are given to corroborate the correctness of our mathematical analysis. It is observed from simulation results that the proposed DPSBR scheme outperforms the SPSBR-based schemes in terms of OP and SOP under the impact of different parameters on system performance.

scholarly journals Outage Analysis of Cooperative Transmission with Energy Harvesting Relay: Time Switching versus Power Splitting

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanyao Du ◽  
Ke Xiong ◽  
Zhengding Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Outage Probability ◽  
Cooperative Transmission ◽  
Power Splitting ◽  
Additional Energy ◽  
Time Switching ◽  
Multiuser Transmission ◽  
Independent Information ◽  
Rf Signals ◽  
System Outage Probability

This paper investigates the multiuser transmission network with an energy harvesting (EH) cooperative relay, where a source transmits independent information to multiple destinations with the help of an energy constrained relay. The relay can harvest energy from the radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted from the source, and it helps the multiuser transmission only by consuming the harvested energy. By adopting the time switching and the power splitting relay receiver architectures, we firstly propose two protocols, the time switching cooperative multiuser transmission (TSCMT) protocol and the power splitting cooperative multiuser transmission (PSCMT) protocol, to enable the simultaneous information processing and EH at the relay for the system. To evaluate the system performance, we theoretically analyze the system outage probability for the two proposed protocols and then derive explicit expressions for each of them, respectively. Numerical results are provided to demonstrate the accuracy of our analytical results and reveal that compared with traditional noncooperative scheme our proposed protocols are green solutions to offer reliable communication and lower system outage probability without consuming additional energy. In particular, for the same transmit power at the source, the PSCMT protocol is superior to the TSCMT protocol to obtain lower system outage probability.

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