Optimal Power Allocation for Secure Transmission with Both Internal and External Eavesdroppers

Abstract

A cooperative jamming and beamforming scheme is proposed for secrecy transmission. Different from the existing works, an internal eavesdropper (Eve) and multiple external Eves coexist in the system, where a multi-antenna jammer is deployed to confuse Eves by using artificial noise. Specifically, the jammer can obtain the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) of the internal Eve, but only has the partial CSI of the external Eves. Upon setting up, the transmission outage requirement at Bob and secrecy outage constraint at the Eves, the transmit power is optimized to derive the maximum secrecy rate for the transmission. Moreover, we investigate the optimal power allocation scheme by characterizing the beamforming vectors under considering both perfect and imperfect CSI cases for the internal Eve. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme can improve the secrecy rate significantly by making full use of instantaneous CSI between the jammer and the internal Eve.