Security-Reliability Tradeoff for Friendly Jammer Assisted User-Pair Selection in the Face of Multiple Eavesdroppers

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the physical-layer security in a wireless network consisting of multiple user pairs in the face of multiple eavesdroppers, which are deployed by an adversary for tapping the confidential transmissions of the user pairs deliberately. We propose a friendly jammer-assisted user-pair selection (FJaUPS) scheme to improve the security-reliability tradeoff (SRT). Conventionally, a friendly jammer is used to transmit the artificial noise that is specially designed onto the null space of the main channel (spanning from the source to legitimate destination) for the sake of not interfering with the destination. However, due to the presence of the channel state information estimation error, it is impossible to guarantee that the artificial noise perfectly lies in the null space of the main channel, resulting in a certain interference received at the legitimate destination caused by the friendly jammer. Hence, the impacts of the friendly jammer on the legitimate user transmissions and eavesdroppers are taken into account for evaluating the wireless SRT performance, which are quantified by the so-called self-interfering factor and jamming factor, respectively. Moreover, we derive the SRT of the proposed FJaUPS, as well as the traditional round-robin schemes over Rayleigh fading channels. For comparison purposes, we also provide the SRT result of the conventional pure user-pair selection (PUPS) in computer simulations. In addition, it is shown that the proposed FJaUPS schemes outperform both the traditional round-robin and PUPS methods in terms of their SRT.