Ratnarajah, Tharmalingam

Haas, Harald

Liu, Weigang

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

2017-02-08T15:28:54Z

2017-02-08T15:28:54Z

2016-11-29

Motivated by recent developments in wireless communication, this thesis aims to characterize the secrecy performance in several types of typical wireless networks. Advanced techniques are designed and evaluated to enhance physical layer security in these networks with realistic assumptions, such as signal propagation loss, random node distribution and non-instantaneous channel state information (CSI). The first part of the thesis investigates secret communication through relay-assisted cognitive interference channel. The primary and secondary base stations (PBS and SBS) communicate with the primary and secondary receivers (PR and SR) respectively in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The SBS is allowed to transmit simultaneously with the PBS over the same spectrum instead of waiting for an idle channel. To improve security, cognitive relays transmit cooperative jamming (CJ) signals to create additional interferences in the direction of the eavesdroppers. Two CJ schemes are proposed to improve the secrecy rate of cognitive interference channels depending on the structure of cooperative relays. In the scheme where the multiple-antenna relay transmits weighted jamming signals, the combined approach of CJ and beamforming is investigated. In the scheme with multiple relays transmitting weighted jamming signals, the combined approach of CJ and relay selection is analyzed. Numerical results show that both these two schemes are effective in improving physical layer security of cognitive interference channel. In the second part, the focus is shifted to physical layer security in a random wireless network where both legitimate and eavesdropping nodes are randomly distributed. Three scenarios are analyzed to investigate the impact of various factors on security. In scenario one, the basic scheme is studied without a protected zone and interference. The probability distribution function (PDF) of channel gain with both fading and path loss has been derived and further applied to derive secrecy connectivity and ergodic secrecy capacity. In the second scenario, we studied using a protected zone surrounding the source node to enhance security where interference is absent. Both the cases that eavesdroppers are aware and unaware of the protected zone boundary are investigated. Based on the above scenarios, further deployment of the protected zones at legitimate receivers is designed to convert detrimental interference into a beneficial factor. Numerical results are investigated to check the reliability of the PDF for reciprocal of channel gain and to analyze the impact of protected zones on secrecy performance. In the third part, physical layer security in the downlink transmission of cellular network is studied. To model the repulsive property of the cellular network planning, we assume that the base stations (BSs) follow the Mat´ern hard-core point process (HCPP), while the eavesdroppers are deployed as an independent Poisson point process (PPP). The distribution function of the distances from a typical point to the nodes of the HCPP is derived. The noise-limited and interference-limited cellular networks are investigated by applying the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) in the system. For the noise-limited network, we derive the secrecy outage probability with two different strategies, i.e. the best BS serve and the nearest BS serve, by analyzing the statistics of channel gains. For the interference-limited network with the nearest BS serve, two transmission schemes are analyzed, i.e., transmission with and without the FFR. Numerical results reveal that both the schemes of transmitting with the best BS and the application of the FFR are beneficial for physical layer security in the downlink cellular networks, while the improvement due

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19565

en

The University of Edinburgh

W. Liu, Z. Ding, T. Ratnarajah and J. Xue, “On Ergodic Secrecy Capacity of RandomWireless Networks with Protected Zone,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1, September, 2015.

W. Liu, M.Z.I. Sarkar and T. Ratnarajah, “Combined Approach of Zero Forcing Precoding and Cooperative Jamming: A Secrecy Tradeoff,” In Proc. the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) , April 7-10, 2013.

W. Liu, M.Z.I. Sarkar and T. Ratnarajah, “On the security of cognitive radio networks: Cooperative jamming with relay selection,” European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), June 23-26, 2014.

W. Liu, S. Vuppala, G. Abreu and T. Ratnarajah, “Secrecy Outage in Correlated Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” In Proc. the IEEE 25 Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Washington D.C., USA, September 2-5, 2014.

S. Vuppala, W. Liu, T. Ratnarajah and G. Abreu, “Secrecy Outage Analysis of Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks,” In Proc. the IEEE Forty-eight Annual Asilomar conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, California, Nov. 2-5, 2014

S. Vuppala, W. Liu, G. Abreu and T. Ratnarajah, “Secrecy Outage of Nakagamim MISO Channels with Randomly Located Receivers,” In Proc. on the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), At London, UK, June.8-12, 2015.

physical layer security

convex optimization

stochastic geometry

Enhancing physical layer security in wireless networks with cooperative approaches

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD Doctor of Philosophy