Cooperative encryption over backscatter: Secure green communication for two-way energy harvesting relay networks

Abstract

This paper focuses on the design of a novel cooperative jamming strategy and resource allocation scheme in two-way energy harvesting (EH) relay networks. For solving the security vulnerability challenges, a backscatter jamming strategy is proposed by leveraging the information signals as the carrier, which can degrade the eavesdropping link without extra energy consumption, delay and strict synchronization requirement. Based on the above design, we formulate the secure energy efficiency (SEE) maximization problem by jointly optimizing the transmission powers of two sources, two different power splitting (PS) factors and time allocation factor. Although the resulting optimization problem is highly non-convex due to fractional objective function and multivariate coupling, an iterative algorithm is developed to convert the original problem into a tractable version and obtain the resource allocation solutions. Simulation results show that the achievable SEE of the proposed scheme is better than other conventional schemes.