Physical Layer Security for CRNs over Beaulieu-Xie Fading Channels

Abstract

In recent years, the access of massive communication devices leads to the insufficient spectrum resources of wireless networks. One of the practical means to resolve the problem is to build cognitive radio networks (CRNs), which can realize the sharing of spectrum resources between primary and secondary users, thereby improving the utilization rate of wireless spectrum resources. To this end, the CRNs are utilized to establish the Wyner’s eavesdropping model over the Beaulieu-Xie fading channels. We mainly deduce the accurate expressions of secrecy outage probability and strictly positive secrecy capacity to explore the performance of physical layer security. Moreover, the better overlap between the statistical simulation and the theoretical results indicates the correctness of the theoretical analysis equation. The interesting results are that both increasing the P max and decreasing the C t h can improve the security performance. This work is a good reference and guidance for modeling CRNs (Internet of Things, fifth generation, cell phone networks, etc.) and security performance evaluation.