Title: Physical layer security of cooperative wireless networks with RF energy harvesting

Authors: Faisal Alanazi

Addresses: Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Abstract: The paper derives the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC) for wireless networks with energy harvesting. The Base Station (BS) uses the received RF signal to harvest energy. The harvested energy is used to transmit data to the receiver R. The eavesdropper E receives the signal from BS and try to decode it. We also derive the SPSC and SOP when there are K relay nodes. The best relay is selected to amplify the BS signal to the receiver R.

Keywords: PLS; physical layer security; SOP; secrecy outage probability; SPSC; probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity; energy harvesting using radio frequency (RF) signals; Rayleigh channels; outage probability; CDF of SINR; PDF of SINR.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2021.117230

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2021 Vol.36 No.3, pp.174 - 179

Received: 01 Nov 2020
Accepted: 29 Dec 2020
Published online: 24 Aug 2021 *

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