access icon free Analysis of security performance of relay selection in underlay cognitive networks

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Received 20/04/2017, Accepted 17/10/2017, Revised 21/08/2017, Published 30/10/2017

Underlay cognitive networks allow unlicenced/secondary users (SUs) to opportunistically access licenced frequency bands, and hence information transmission is undoubtedly wire-tapped by eavesdroppers. This study analyses security performance of a relay selection scheme, which selects a secondary relay to minimise information wire-tapping of eavesdroppers, in underlay cognitive networks. Toward this end, the authors propose approximate and asymptotic intercept outage probability expressions which account for interference power constraint for licenced/primary users, maximum transmit power constraint for SUs, independent non-identical fading channels, and direct channel between secondary source and eavesdropper. Moreover, they determine diversity order and coding gain of this relay selection based on the proposed asymptotic expression. Monte Carlo simulations validate these expressions and numerous results demonstrate that the investigated relay selection prevents the eavesdropper from obtaining full diversity order offered by all relays and source, induces the intercept outage probability saturated at either large maximum transmit power or large maximum interference power, and improves information security performance with respect to the increase in the number of relays.

Inspec keywords: cognitive radio; relay networks (telecommunication); fading channels; telecommunication security; Monte Carlo methods

Other keywords: eavesdroppers; underlay cognitive networks; relay selection; fading channels; asymptotic intercept outage probability expressions; licenced/primary users; maximum transmit power constraint; information transmission; secondary relay; Monte Carlo simulations; unlicenced/secondary users; information wire-tapping

Subjects: Monte Carlo methods; Radio links and equipment; Monte Carlo methods; Data security

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