scholarly journals Secure Transmission in mmWave Wiretap Channels: On Sector Guard Zone and Blockages

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Song ◽  
Weiwei Yang ◽  
Zhongwu Xiang ◽  
Yiliang Liu ◽  
Yueming Cai

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the key enabling technologies for fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. In this paper, we study the problem of secure communication in a mmWave wiretap network, where directional beamforming and link blockages are taken into account. For the secure transmission in the presence of spatially random eavesdroppers, an adaptive transmission scheme is adopted, for which sector secrecy guard zone and artificial noise (AN) are employed to enhance secrecy performance. When there exists no eavesdroppers within the sector secrecy guard zone, the transmitter only transmits information-bearing signal, and, conversely, AN along with information-bearing signal are transmitted. The closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability (SOP), connection outage probability (COP) and secrecy throughput are derived under stochastic geometry. Then, we evaluate the effect of the sector secrecy guard zone and AN on the secrecy performance. Our results reveal that the application of the sector secrecy guard zone and AN can significantly improve the security of the system, and blockages also can be utilized to improve secrecy performance. An easy choice of transmit power and power allocation factor is provided for achieving higher secrecy throughput. Furthermore, increasing the density of eavesdroppers not always deteriorates the secrecy performance due to the use of the sector secrecy guard zone and AN.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Xu ◽  
Chen Liu ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Mujun Qian ◽  
Wenfeng Sun

Abstract Secure transmission is essential for future non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. This paper investigates relay-antenna selection (RAS) to enhance physical-layer security (PLS) of cooperative NOMA system in the presence of an eavesdropper, where multiple antennas are deployed at the relays, the users, and the eavesdropper. In order to reduce expense on radio frequency (RF) chains, selection combining (SC) is employed at both the relays and the users, whilst the eavesdropper employs either maximal-ratio combining (MRC) or selection combining (SC) to process the received signals. Under the condition that the channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropping channel is available or unavailable, two e↵ective relay-antenna selection schemes are proposed. Additionally, the closed-form expressions of secrecy outage probability (SOP) are derived for the proposed relay-antenna selection schemes. In order to gain more deep insights on the derived results, the asymptotic performance of the derived SOP is analyzed. In simulations, it is demonstrated that the theoretical results match well with the simulation results and the SOP of the proposed schemes is less than that of the conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme obviously.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Deng ◽  
Chao Li ◽  
Lisheng Fan ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Fasheng Zhou

This paper studies the impacts of antenna selection algorithms in decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where the secure information from the relay can be overheard by an eavesdropper in the networks. In order to ensure the secure transmission, an optimal antenna selection algorithm is proposed to choose one best relay’s antenna to assist the secure transmission. We study the impact of antenna selection on the system secure communication through deriving the analytical expression of the secrecy outage probability along with the asymptotic expression in the high regime of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and main-to-eavesdropper ratio (MER). From the analytical and asymptotic expressions, we find that the system secure performance is highly dependent on the system parameters such as the number of antennas at the relay, SNR, and MER. In particular, the secrecy diversity order of the system is equal to the antenna number, when the interference from the second user is limited.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 155014772093346
Author(s):  
Xin Fan ◽  
Yan Huo

As Internet of Things (IoT) has boomed in recent years, many security issues have also been exposed. Focusing on physical layer security in wireless Internet of Things network communication, a series of security methods have been widely studied. Nevertheless, cooperative jamming methods in physical layer security to fight against collusive eavesdroppers have not been thoroughly studied yet. In this article, we study a cooperative-jamming-based physical layer secure transmission scheme for Internet of Things wireless networks in the presence of collusive eavesdroppers. We design a cooperative jamming strategy without knowing the channel state information of eavesdroppers. Considering the cooperation of multiple nodes with multiple antennas, this strategy can maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio at an actuator (legitimate receiver). Meanwhile, the generated cooperative jamming signals can reduce the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio at eavesdroppers. To explore the theoretical security performance of our strategy, we perform a secrecy outage probability analysis and an asymptotic analysis. In the cases of cooperative jamming and without cooperative jamming, the closed-form expressions of the secrecy outage probability are deduced, and the influence of system parameters on the secrecy outage probability becomes more intuitive through a strict mathematical asymptotic behavior analysis. In addition, considering the energy limitation of Internet of Things devices, we propose a power allocation algorithm to minimize the total transmission power given the security requirements. The numerical results show the effectiveness of our schemes and are consistent with the theoretical analysis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Shaddrack Yaw Nusenu

In multicast communication scenario, the desired users are decomposed into M groups to receive private M useful data from the transmitter, while eavesdroppers (Eves) group tries to intercept. Since wireless security system consists of authentication and secure transmission, we propose directional modulation (DM) artificial noise (AN) matrix-aided Costas sequence (CS) matrix frequency diverse array (FDA) in multicast precoding systems in this paper. Specifically, we utilize the CS matrix for desired groups authentication (i.e., group identity), and it is shared via a low-speed forward link in advance. Next, we design AN matrix-aided FDA to offer robust antieavesdropping method based on leakage concept. Furthermore, we devise secrecy metrics, namely, secrecy outage probability (SOP), asymptotic Eve’s detectability error probability, and average useful data leakage rate, based on the scenario where Eve’s instantaneous channel state information (CSI) is unavailable. In addition, we numerically analyze the proposed energy beamforming focusing and evaluate the secrecy energy efficiency. Via simulation results, the proposed scheme gives important insights into how to design and measure secrecy performances in multicast scenarios.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 4138
Author(s):  
Ruiqian Ma ◽  
Weiwei Yang ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Songqing Wang

This paper investigates secure transmission in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, where the selected UAV relay performs secure transmission in both the on-off and non-on-off schemes. Meanwhile, there are multiple eavesdroppers randomly distributed on the ground and attempting to wiretap the transmission. Leveraging the air-to-ground channel model and the tools of stochastic geometry, the novel expressions of transmit probability (TP) and secrecy outage probability (SOP) are derived in both the on-off and non-on-off transmission schemes with perfect beam alignment. The secrecy performance improvement is demonstrated in the on-off transmission scheme, and we find that there exists an optimal altitude of UAV relays to achieve the best TP. In addition, due to the limitations of UAV carriers, such as its low computational capacity and high mobility, the perfect beam alignment is difficult to achieve in the mmWave networks aided by UAV relays, and the effect of beam alignment error on the secrecy performance is investigated in the considered networks. Analyzing the numerical and simulation results, we find that the SOP will not have obvious deterioration when the beam alignment error is relatively small, and the SOP can be improved by using the antennas with a large number of elements. However, in high beam alignment error regime, the antenna arrays with a smaller number of elements will provide the better SOP.


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