Abstract

The simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology is recently used to sustain the lifetime of energy-constrained relay nodes in wireless cooperative networks. An example to achieve this technology is the hybridized power-time splitting-based relaying (HPTSR) protocol. However, the information security aspect of wireless cooperative networks is important and needs adequate attention. In this paper, we perform the secrecy analysis of a SWIPT-enabled cooperative network with source–relay link-based decode-and-forward HPTSR protocol, which can enhance the operational lifetime of the relay nodes and the secrecy performance of the entire cooperative network. Specifically, we examine the secrecy performance of the considered network by deriving the analytical expressions for the near-optimal power splitting factor, secrecy outage probability, and secure energy efficiency of the system. All analytical results are confirmed by numerical simulations. Our results show that the SWIPT-enabled cooperative network outperforms the conventional relaying scheme-based network presented in literature at relatively high signal-to-noise ratios.

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