scholarly journals Joint Trajectory and Power Allocation Design for Secure Artificial Noise aided UAV Communications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Tatar Mamaghani ◽  
Yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Power Allocation ◽  
Maximization Problem ◽  
Artificial Noise ◽  
Transmission Protocol ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Convex Problem ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Network Transmission ◽  
Phase Transmission

This paper investigates an average secrecy rate (ASR) maximization problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication system, wherein a UAV is employed to deliver confidential information to a ground destination in the presence of a terrestrial passive eavesdropper. By employing an artificial noise (AN) injection based secure two-phase transmission protocol, we aim at jointly optimizing the UAV’s trajectory, network transmission power, and AN power allocation over a given time horizon to enhance the ASR performance. Specifically, we divide the original non-convex problem into four subproblems, and propose a successive convex approximation based efficient iterative algorithm to solve it suboptimally with guaranteed convergence. Simulation results demonstrate significant security advantages of our designed scheme over other known benchmarks, particularly for stringent flight durations.

scholarly journals Joint Trajectory and Power Allocation Design for Secure Artificial Noise aided UAV Communications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Tatar Mamaghani ◽  
Yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Power Allocation ◽  
Maximization Problem ◽  
Artificial Noise ◽  
Transmission Protocol ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Convex Problem ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Network Transmission ◽  
Phase Transmission

This paper investigates an average secrecy rate (ASR) maximization problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication system, wherein a UAV is employed to deliver confidential information to a ground destination in the presence of a terrestrial passive eavesdropper. By employing an artificial noise (AN) injection based secure two-phase transmission protocol, we aim at jointly optimizing the UAV’s trajectory, network transmission power, and AN power allocation over a given time horizon to enhance the ASR performance. Specifically, we divide the original non-convex problem into four subproblems, and propose a successive convex approximation based efficient iterative algorithm to solve it suboptimally with guaranteed convergence. Simulation results demonstrate significant security advantages of our designed scheme over other known benchmarks, particularly for stringent flight durations.

scholarly journals Secrecy analysis of short-packet transmissions in ultra-reliable and low-latency communications

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhua He ◽  
Guangheng Zhao ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
Xue Sun ◽  
Lei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Power Allocation ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Low Latency ◽  
Artificial Noise ◽  
Secrecy Outage Probability ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Single Antenna ◽  
Error Probabilities ◽  
Short Packet ◽  
Allocation Factor

AbstractIn this paper, we investigate the secrecy performance of short-packet transmissions in ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC). We consider the scenario where a multi-antenna source communicates with a single-antenna legitimate receiver requiring ultra-high reliability and low latency, in the presence of a single-antenna eavesdropper. In order to safeguard URLLC, the source transmits the artificial noise (AN) signal together with the confidential signal to confuse the eavesdropper. We adopt a lower bound on the maximal secrecy rate as the secrecy performance metric for short-packet transmissions in URLLC, which takes the target decoding error probabilities at the legitimate receiver and the eavesdropper into account. Using this metric, we first derive a compact expression of the generalized secrecy outage probability (SOP). Then, we formally prove that the generalized SOP is a convex function with respect to the power allocation factor between the confidential signal and the AN signal. We further determine the optimal power allocation factor that minimizes the generalized SOP. The results presented in this work can be useful for designing new secure transmission schemes for URLLC.

scholarly journals Regional robust secure precise wireless transmission design for multi-user UAV broadcasting system

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Shen ◽  
Tingting Liu ◽  
Yan Lin ◽  
Yongpeng Wu ◽  
Feng Shu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Estimation Error ◽  
Wireless Transmission ◽  
Artificial Noise ◽  
Target Area ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Estimation Errors ◽  
Transmission Design ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Noise Ratio

Abstract In this paper, two regional robust secure precise wireless transmission (SPWT) schemes for multi-user unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), (1)regional signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio (SLNR) and artificial-noise-to-leakage-and-noise ratio (ANLNR) (R-SLNR-ANLNR) maximization and (2) point SLNR and ANLNR (P-SLNR-ANLNR) maximization, are proposed to tackle with the estimation errors of the target users’ location. In the SPWT system, the estimation error for SPWT cannot be ignored. However, the conventional robust methods in secure wireless communications optimize the beamforming vector in the desired positions only in statistical means and cannot guarantee the security for each symbol. The proposed regional robust schemes are designed for optimizing the secrecy performance in the whole error region around the estimated location. Specifically, with the known maximal estimation error, we define the target region and wiretap region. Then, we design an optimal beamforming vector and an artificial noise projection matrix, which achieve the confidential signal in the target area having the maximal power while only few signal power is conserved in the potential wiretap region. Instead of considering the statistical distributions of the estimated errors into optimization, we optimize the SLNR and ANLNR of the whole target area, which significantly decreases the complexity. Moreover, the proposed schemes can ensure that the desired users are located in the optimized region, which are more practical than the conventional methods. Simulation results show that our proposed regional robust SPWT design is capable of substantially improving the secrecy rate compared to the conventional non-robust method. The P-SLNR-ANLNR maximization-based method has the comparable secrecy performance with lower complexity than that of the R-SLNR-ANLNR maximization-based method.

scholarly journals Robust Secure Beamforming Design for Cooperative Cognitive Radio Nonorthogonal Multiple Access Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Quanzhong Li ◽  
Sai Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Radio ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Spectrum Efficiency ◽  
Maximization Problem ◽  
Artificial Noise ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Rank One

By the integration of cooperative cognitive radio (CR) and nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA), cooperative CR NOMA networks can improve the spectrum efficiency of wireless networks significantly. Due to the openness and exposure of wireless signals, secure communication is an important issue for cooperative CR NOMA networks. In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security design for cooperative CR NOMA networks. Our objective is to achieve maximum secrecy rate of the secondary user by designing optimal beamformers and artificial noise covariance matrix at the multiantenna secondary transmitter under the quality-of-service at the primary user and the transmit power constraint at the secondary transmitter. We consider the practical case that the channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper is imperfect, and we model the imperfect CSI by the worst-case model. We show that the robust secrecy rate maximization problem can be transformed to a series of semidefinite programmings based on S-procedure and rank-one relaxation. We also propose an effective method to recover the optimal rank-one solution. Simulations are provided to show the effectiveness of our proposed robust secure algorithm with comparison to the nonrobust secure design and traditional orthogonal multiple access schemes.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency Maximization of Dynamic CoMP-JT Algorithm in Dense Small Cell Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Xuefei Peng ◽  
Jiandong Li ◽  
Yifei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Power Allocation ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Maximization Problem ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
User Association ◽  
Coordinated Multipoint ◽  
Convex Problem

We firstly formulate the energy efficiency (EE) maximization problem of joint user association and power allocation considering minimum data rate requirement of small cell users (SUEs) and maximum transmit power constraint of small cell base stations (SBSs), which is NP-hard. Then, we propose a dynamic coordinated multipoint joint transmission (CoMP-JT) algorithm to improve EE. In the first phase, SUEs are associated with the SBSs close to them to reduce the loss of power by the proposed user association algorithm, where the associated SBSs of each small cell user (SUE) form a dynamic CoMP-JT set. In the second phase, through the methods of fractional programming and successive convex approximation, we transform the EE maximization subproblem of power allocation for SBSs into a convex problem that can be solved by proposed power allocation optimization algorithm. Moreover, we show that the proposed solution has a much lower computational complexity than that of the optimal solution obtained by exhaustive search. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed solution has a better performance.

scholarly journals THz Transmission meets Untrusted UAV-Relaying; Trajectory and Communication Co-design for Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Tatar Mamaghani ◽  
Yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Cooperative Jamming ◽  
Transmission Strategy ◽  
Average System ◽  
Phase Transmission

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Terahertz (THz) technology are envisioned to play paramount roles in next-generation wireless communications. Hence, this paper presents a novel secure UAV-assisted mobile relaying system operating at THz bands for data acquisition from multiple ground user equipments towards a destination. We assume that the UAV-mounted relay may act, besides providing relaying services, as a potential adversary called the untrusted UAV relay. To safeguard end-to-end communications, we present a secure two-phase transmission strategy with cooperative jamming. Then, we formulate an optimization problem in terms of a new measure – secrecy energy efficiency (SEE), defined as the ratio of achievable average secrecy rate to average system power consumption, which enables us to obtain the best possible security level while taking UAV's inherent flight power limitation into account. This optimization problem leads to a joint design of key system parameters, including UAV's trajectory and velocity, communication scheduling, and power allocations. Since the formulated problem is a mixed-integer nonconvex optimization and computationally intractable, we propose alternative algorithms to solve it efficiently via greedy/sequential block coordinated descent, successive convex approximation, and non-linear fractional programming techniques. Numerical results demonstrate significant SEE performance improvement of our designs when compared to other known benchmarks.

scholarly journals THz Transmission meets Untrusted UAV-Relaying; Trajectory and Communication Co-design for Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Tatar Mamaghani ◽  
Yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Secrecy Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Cooperative Jamming ◽  
Transmission Strategy ◽  
Average System ◽  
Phase Transmission

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Terahertz (THz) technology are envisioned to play paramount roles in next-generation wireless communications. Hence, this paper presents a novel secure UAV-assisted mobile relaying system operating at THz bands for data acquisition from multiple ground user equipments towards a destination. We assume that the UAV-mounted relay may act, besides providing relaying services, as a potential adversary called the untrusted UAV relay. To safeguard end-to-end communications, we present a secure two-phase transmission strategy with cooperative jamming. Then, we formulate an optimization problem in terms of a new measure – secrecy energy efficiency (SEE), defined as the ratio of achievable average secrecy rate to average system power consumption, which enables us to obtain the best possible security level while taking UAV's inherent flight power limitation into account. This optimization problem leads to a joint design of key system parameters, including UAV's trajectory and velocity, communication scheduling, and power allocations. Since the formulated problem is a mixed-integer nonconvex optimization and computationally intractable, we propose alternative algorithms to solve it efficiently via greedy/sequential block coordinated descent, successive convex approximation, and non-linear fractional programming techniques. Numerical results demonstrate significant SEE performance improvement of our designs when compared to other known benchmarks.

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