Secrecy analysis of random wireless networks with multiple eavesdroppers

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the secrecy outage probability of random wireless networks from the perspective of the k-th best source, which has still not been well characterized. We consider the artificial noise (AN) transmission strategy at source nodes to confuse the eavesdropper. Furthermore, we use a concept of security-region based on the k-th best source index. This is pragmatic in creating a protected communication zone for the typical destination and also in bounding the number of sources that can cooperate in a Coordinated Multi-point transmission (CoMP) network. We further derive the secrecy outage probability for these CoMP sources based on the security-region. We also provide a closed-form expression for the maximum number of eavesdroppers for a given secrecy outage constraint, which can effect the secure communication. Tractable numerical results are presented under various assumptions of densities, antenna gains, AN transmission factors and path loss exponents.