Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer

Communication assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been regarded as an effective technique for reliability improvement in both military and civilian domains, whereas it also makes the information vulnerable to passive eavesdropping due to its wide broadcast. In this paper, we investigate...

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Main Authors: Ruiqian Ma, Weiwei Yang, Yu Zhang, Jue Liu, Hui Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8788530/
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Weiwei Yang
Yu Zhang
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description Communication assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been regarded as an effective technique for reliability improvement in both military and civilian domains, whereas it also makes the information vulnerable to passive eavesdropping due to its wide broadcast. In this paper, we investigate the secure millimeter wave (mmWave) communication assisted by multiple UAV-enabled relays and jammers, where exist multiple randomly distributed eavesdroppers on the ground. Leveraging the models of 3D-antenna gain and stochastic geometry, new closed-form expressions of secrecy outage probability are derived on the basis of the opportunistic relay selection scheme involving the characteristics of air-to-ground channel, and the secrecy improvement is demonstrated when the relay density increases. In addition, a cooperative jamming scheme, where a part of UAVs transmit the jamming signals, is designed to degrade the qualities of eavesdropping channels and further enhance physical layer security. The simulation results show the impacts of different system parameters on secrecy outage probability and verify our analysis. It's also revealed that there exist the optimal attitude of UAVs, jamming power and density of jammers for achieving the best secrecy performance.
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spelling doaj.art-097f92cc38b34362acf650214e59b1d82022-12-21T23:21:28ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01711972911974110.1109/ACCESS.2019.29332318788530Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative JammerRuiqian Ma0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1879-6695Weiwei Yang1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0220-4088Yu Zhang2Jue Liu3Hui Shi4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8194-5134College of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, ChinaCommunication assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been regarded as an effective technique for reliability improvement in both military and civilian domains, whereas it also makes the information vulnerable to passive eavesdropping due to its wide broadcast. In this paper, we investigate the secure millimeter wave (mmWave) communication assisted by multiple UAV-enabled relays and jammers, where exist multiple randomly distributed eavesdroppers on the ground. Leveraging the models of 3D-antenna gain and stochastic geometry, new closed-form expressions of secrecy outage probability are derived on the basis of the opportunistic relay selection scheme involving the characteristics of air-to-ground channel, and the secrecy improvement is demonstrated when the relay density increases. In addition, a cooperative jamming scheme, where a part of UAVs transmit the jamming signals, is designed to degrade the qualities of eavesdropping channels and further enhance physical layer security. The simulation results show the impacts of different system parameters on secrecy outage probability and verify our analysis. It's also revealed that there exist the optimal attitude of UAVs, jamming power and density of jammers for achieving the best secrecy performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8788530/UAVmillimeter waverelayphysical layer securitysecrecy outage probability
spellingShingle Ruiqian Ma
Weiwei Yang
Yu Zhang
Jue Liu
Hui Shi
Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer
IEEE Access
UAV
millimeter wave
relay
physical layer security
secrecy outage probability
title Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer
title_full Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer
title_fullStr Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer
title_full_unstemmed Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer
title_short Secure mmWave Communication Using UAV-Enabled Relay and Cooperative Jammer
title_sort secure mmwave communication using uav enabled relay and cooperative jammer
topic UAV
millimeter wave
relay
physical layer security
secrecy outage probability
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8788530/
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