| Title | Physical Layer Security of an Amplify-and-Forward Energy Harvesting-Based Mixed RF/UOW System |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Illi, Elmehdi, Bouanani, Faissal El, Ayoub, Fouad |
| Conference Name | 2019 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet) |
| Keywords | amplify and forward communication, amplify-and-forward energy harvesting, antenna arrays, Batteries, diversity reception, dual-hop system, energy harvesting, error statistics, fading channels, fixed-gain amplification, legitimate destination node, malicious eavesdropper, maximal ratio combining, Metrics, mixed RF-UOWC system, mixture Exponential-Gamma fading, MRC, multiantenna AF relay device, Nakagami channels, Nakagami-m fading, optical fiber communication, optical links, physical layer security, probability, pubcrawl, Radio frequency, radio-frequency system, relay networks (telecommunication), relay node, Relays, Resiliency, RF link, S-R hop, Scalability, secrecy outage probability, Signal to noise ratio, single-antenna source node, telecommunication network reliability, telecommunication power management, telecommunication security, Underwater Networks, underwater optical wireless communication, UOWC link, Wireless sensor networks |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the secrecy outage performance of an energy harvesting-based dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) mixed radio-frequency/underwater optical wireless communication (RF/UOWC) system. A single-antenna source node (S) is considered, communicating with one legitimate destination node (D) with the aid of a multi-antenna AF relay (R) device. In this setup, the relay node receives the incoming signal from S via an RF link, which is subject to Nakagami-m fading, then performs maximal-ratio-combining (MRC) followed by a fixed-gain amplification, before transmitting it to the destination via a UOWC link, subject to mixture Exponential-Gamma fading. Assuming the presence of a malicious eavesdropper attempting to intercept the S- R hop, a tight approximate expression for the secrecy outage probability is retrieved. The derived results provide useful insights into the influence of key system parameters on the secrecy outage performance. Our analytical results are corroborated through computer simulations, which verifies their validity. |
| DOI | 10.1109/COMMNET.2019.8742387 |
| Citation Key | illi_physical_2019 |
Physical Layer Security of an Amplify-and-Forward Energy Harvesting-Based Mixed RF/UOW System