Beamforming Design for Physical Layer Security in a Two-Way Cognitive Radio IoT Network With SWIPT

Abstract

In this article, we study the secure beamforming design for a two-way cognitive radio (CR) Internet of Things (IoT) network aided with the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). Located at the center of secondary network, the IoT controller helps to provide relay assistance and cooperative physical layer security (PLS) for two primary users (PUs) against an eavesdropper, while transmitting information and power to the other IoT devices (IoDs) with primary spectrum. To enhance the information security, we aim to maximize the secrecy sum rate (SSR) for PUs by jointly designing the beamforming matrix and vectors at the central controller. To efficiently solve the nonconvex problem, we first propose the branch-reduce-and-bound (BRB)-based algorithm to obtain an upper bound for the SSR and offer a feasible solution by Gaussian randomization, which demands two-level iteration and thus has high complexity. To strike a balance between the complexity and the performance, we then propose iterative algorithm based on constrained-convex-concave programming (CCCP) and a zero forcing (ZF)-based noniterative algorithm, the latter of which with lowest complexity is suitable for the central controller with limited-power supply. The simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed optimization algorithms in comparison to the traditional schemes.