Secure Transmission in a NOMA-Assisted IoT Network with Diversified Communication Requirements

Zhongwu Xiang, Weiwei Yang, Yueming Cai, Jun Xiong, Zhiguo Ding, Yi Song

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Abstract

Considering the diversified communication requirements in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, this article proposes a nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme which pairs two types of typical users, i.e., delay-sensitive user (DSU) and security-required user (SRU) to share the same nonorthogonal communication resources. We focus on the investigation of the secure transmission for the SRU while guaranteeing the communication requirements of the DSUs at the high priority. Specifically, the delay requirement of the DSUs and the security demand of the SRU are guaranteed by using short-packet communications and the maximal ratio transmission (MRT) scheme, respectively. Since the packets cannot always be detected correctly in the short-packet communications, a novel power allocation strategy is designed sophisticatedly to avoid the outage performance floor at the SRU caused by the short-packet communications. A set of closed-form expressions of the connection outage probability (COP), secrecy outage probability, and effective secrecy throughput (EST) of the SRU are derived over Nakagami- m channels in the proposed NOMA scheme and also the benchmark OMA scheme. Besides, we provide the security-reliability tradeoff (SRT) and security-efficiency tradeoff (SET) results for obtaining more insights into system performance. Results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed NOMA scheme over the benchmark OMA scheme in terms of the COP, EST, SRT, and SET when the transmitter is equipped with multiple antennas.

Original languageBritish English
Article number9096300
Pages (from-to)11157-11169
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Internet of Things Journal
Volume7
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020

Keywords

  • Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
  • physical layer security (PLS)
  • short-packet communications

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