access icon free Secrecy outage of a multi-relay cooperative communication network with accumulation of harvesting energy at relays

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 07/01/2019, Accepted 20/08/2019, Revised 27/06/2019, Published 22/08/2019

Security of confidential data at the physical layer has been analysed in a network where the source sends the confidential data to the destination via multiple energy harvesting decode and forward relays in the presence of a single eavesdropper (EAV). In this two-hop communication, the first hop is broadcasting hop when the source sends the information signal to relay and other is the relaying hop when a selected relay forwards the information signal as well as transmits a jamming signal to destination and EAV. Each relay has the two batteries; one for accumulating the harvested energy and the other for power supply to relays for relay operation over a number of frames until the accumulated harvested energy becomes sufficient. In the broadcasting hop, relays harvest energy using a power splitting ratio scheme and accumulate the harvested energy in the battery over a number of communication frames. The performance is analysed in the form of secrecy outage probability (SOP) when the relay uses only the harvested energy to forward the signal. A closed-form analytical expression for the SOP is derived. MATLAB-based simulation results match well with the analytical results.

Inspec keywords: telecommunication network reliability; decode and forward communication; telecommunication security; energy harvesting; jamming; probability; relay networks (telecommunication); cooperative communication; telecommunication power management

Other keywords: decode and forward relays; information signal; accumulated harvested energy; Matlab-based simulation; relaying hop; multiple energy harvesting; single eavesdropper; physical layer; broadcasting hop; multirelay cooperative communication network; jamming signal; secrecy outage probability; power splitting ratio scheme; confidential data security; relay operation; two-hop communication

Subjects: Reliability; Energy harvesting; Telecommunication systems (energy utilisation); Data security; Energy harvesting; Electromagnetic compatibility and interference; Radio links and equipment

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