Secrecy Analysis of Ambient Backscatter NOMA Systems under I/Q Imbalance

Xingwang Li, Mengle Zhao, Yuanwei Liu, Lihua Li, Zhiguo Ding, Arumugam Nallanathan

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Abstract

In this correspondence, we investigate the reliability and the security of the ambient backscatter (AmBC) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, where the source aims to communicate with two NOMA users in the presence of an eavesdropper. To be practical, we assume that all nodes and backscatter device (BD) suffer from in-phase and quadrature-phase imbalance (IQI). More specifically, some analytical expressions for the outage probability (OP) and the intercept probability (IP) are derived. In order to obtain more insights, the asymptotic behaviors for the OP in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime are explored, and corresponding diversity orders are derived. Numerical results show that: 1) Although IQI reduces the reliability, it can enhance the security; 2) Compared with the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) systems, the considered AmBC NOMA systems can obtain better reliability when the SNR is lower; 3) There are error floors for the OP in the high SNR regime due to the reflection coefficient $\beta$; 4) There exists a trade-off between reliability and security.

Original languageBritish English
Article number9131891
Pages (from-to)12286-12290
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume69
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2020

Keywords

  • Ambient backscatter communication
  • in-phase and quadrature-phase imbalance
  • non-orthogonal multiple access
  • physical layer security

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