| Title | On the Physical Layer Security of a Regenerative Relay-Based mixed RF/UOWC |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Illi, Elmehdi, Bouanani, Faissal El, da Costa, Daniel Benevides, Sofotasios, Paschalis C., Ayoub, Fouad, Mezher, Kahtan, Muhaidat, Sami |
| Conference Name | 2019 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet) |
| Date Published | apr |
| Keywords | closed-form expression, decode and forward communication, diversity reception, dual-hop decode-and-forward mixed radio-frequency/underwater optical wireless communication system, fading channels, Metrics, mixture Exponential-Gamma fading, multiantenna DF relay node, one-antenna source node, optical fiber communication, physical layer security, probability, pubcrawl, Radio frequency, Rayleigh fading, regenerative relay-based mixed RF/UOWC, relay networks (telecommunication), Relays, Resiliency, Scalability, secrecy outage probability, security, selection-combining, Signal to noise ratio, telecommunication security, Underwater Networks, underwater optical wireless communication, Wireless communication |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the secrecy outage performance of a dual-hop decode-and-forward (DF) mixed radio-frequency/underwater optical wireless communication (RF/UOWC) system. We consider a one-antenna source node ( S), communicating with one legitimate destination node (D) via a multi-antenna DF relay (R) node. In this context, the relay node receives the incoming signal from S via an RF link, which is subject to Rayleigh fading, then performes selection-combining (SC) followed by decoding and then re-encoding for transmission to the destination over a UOWC link, subject to mixture Exponential-Gamma fading. Under the assumption of eavesdroppers attempting to intercept the S-R (RF side), a closed-form expression for the secrecy outage probability is derived. Our analytical results are corroborated through computer simulations, which verifies their validity. |
| DOI | 10.1109/COMMNET.2019.8742355 |
| Citation Key | illi_physical_2019-1 |
On the Physical Layer Security of a Regenerative Relay-Based mixed RF/UOWC