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Secure Cooperative Communication via Artificial Noise for Wireless Two-Hop Relaying Networks

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A two-hop relaying system for secrecy cooperative communication in the presence of an eavesdropper is investigated, where each relay node is equipped with a unitary matrix and cooperates to transmit the received signals, which can partly mitigate the deep channel fade. Gaussian distributed artificial noise (AN) is added in the null space of the intended receiver to ensure the secrecy of communication and achieve a better secrecy capacity while only the wiretap channel is degraded. The secrecy capacity and the optimal power distribution are studied in two scenarios, AN added by the transmitter and AN added by the cooperative relay nodes. Also, a sub-optimal power distribution strategy independent of the channel state information of eavesdropper is proposed to alleviate the computational overhead. The analytical results are confirmed by simulations that it is better to distribute more power to the available signals if the main channel is better, while more power to AN if the wire-tap channel is better. The sub-optimal power distribution can attain close performance compared with the optimal power distribution strategy but with substantially reduced computational complexity.

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Acknowledgments

The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61371115 and 61262084), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant Nos. 20114BAB201018 and 20132BAB201019), the Foundation for Young Scientists of Jiangxi Province (Jinggang Star) (Grant No. 20122BCB23002), the Research Foundation of the Education Department of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. GJJ14133), and the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrate Administration Technologies for Information Security (Grant No. AGK2014004).

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  1. Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China

    Nan Run Zhou, Zhi Juan Kang & Xiao Rong Liang

  2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrate Administration Technologies for Information Security, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Nan Run Zhou & Zhi Juan Kang

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Zhou, N.R., Kang, Z.J. & Liang, X.R. Secure Cooperative Communication via Artificial Noise for Wireless Two-Hop Relaying Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 82, 1759–1771 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2311-8

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