Secrecy-enhancing design for cooperative downlink and uplink NOMA with an untrusted relay

Lu Lv, Hai Jiang, Zhiguo Ding, Long Yang, Jian Chen

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Abstract

We investigate a secrecy-enhancing design for cooperative downlink and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmissions with an untrusted relay. A source uses the NOMA principle to have downlink and uplink transmissions with a near user and a far user, and the communications between the source and the far user are aided by an untrusted relay. To minimize information leakage at the untrusted relay and achieve secure NOMA communications, adaptive downlink and uplink cooperative jamming schemes are proposed, where the far user in downlink and the near user in uplink adaptively emit a jamming signal to the untrusted relay to impair its eavesdropping capability. Both downlink and uplink jamming power are optimized to fully exploit the benefits of the proposed schemes for security enhancement. Then, for each scheme, we quantify the secrecy performance by deriving the ergodic secrecy sum rate lower bound and its scaling law. Finally, computer simulation is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive downlink and uplink cooperative jamming schemes and verify the accuracy of the derived analytical results.

Original languageBritish English
Article number8935394
Pages (from-to)1698-1715
Number of pages18
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume68
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2020

Keywords

  • cooperative jamming
  • Non-orthogonal multiple access
  • physical layer security
  • secrecy sum rate
  • untrusted relay

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