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Secure and opportunistic communication with interference cancellation against powerful and full-duplex attackers

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In this paper, we consider the problem of multiple active and full-duplex (FD) attackers in physical-layer security of wireless communications. The attackers can eavesdrop the legitimate signal from a transmitter to a receiver and jam it at the same time with a high power. The channel realizations, pilot signals, and jamming signals of the attackers are not known at the legitimate nodes. This gives a difficulty because there are not enough degrees of freedom in the received signal space. However, we propose a novel scheme to opportunistically remove the jamming signals out of the received signals to reliably decode the legitimate signal. The numerical results show that there is a significant improvement in the secrecy rate (SR) compared to the conventional scheme. Especially, the higher the transmit power of the attackers, the better the performance of the proposed scheme.

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Notes

  1. A more general coherence time can be assumed by considering two cases of its length but is out of scope of this paper.

  2. We do not need to know the channel realizations between the jammers and A and B in order to get this ergodic rate; instead, we need to know their distribution and the channel realizations between A and B, which are presupposed in section System Model.

  3. We will use a different simulation later to show that the higher the transmit power of the attackers, the better the performance of the proposed scheme.

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This work was supported by NAFOSTED Grant 102.02-2018.318.

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    Chan Dai Truyen Thai & Thanh T. Tran

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Thai, C.D.T., Tran, T.T. & Huynh, DT. Secure and opportunistic communication with interference cancellation against powerful and full-duplex attackers. Wireless Netw 29, 403–412 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03144-0

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