Abstract
The idea of multiuser (nodes) cooperation is an efficient way to improve the physical-layer security of a wireless transmission in the presence of passive eavesdroppers. However, due to the half-duplex constraint of the practical transceivers, two phases are required for one round of data transmission, which grants the eavesdroppers two opportunities to wiretap the information. Therefore, protecting the data transmissions in both phases is critical. Toward this end, we propose a joint cooperative beamforming, jamming, and power-allocation scheme to enhance the security of an amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative relay network in this paper. Different from the existing works assuming that the source node always uses its total power, we show that the secrecy rate is a quasi-concave function of the power of the source node so that allocating its total power may not be optimal. The beamformer design and power optimization problem can be solved by a bisection method together with a generalized eigenvalue decomposition, which has a semiclosed form and is computationally very convenient. Simulations show that the joint scheme greatly improves the security.
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