Secrecy Performance Analysis for Hybrid Wiretapping Systems Using Random Matrix Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we study the secrecy performance in a hybrid wiretapping wireless system, where the half-duplex (HD) or full-duplex (FD) eavesdroppers may wiretap the confidential signal and/or transmit a jamming signal. To evaluate the secrecy performance, we derive the approximate closed-form results for the secrecy outage probability and mean secrecy rate by means of the random matrix theory (RMT). The RMT method can greatly simplify the complicated mathematical analysis with high accuracy, and can provide a useful analytical framework for other researches. The Monte Carlo simulations and numerical results are provided to validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate the impacts of the system parameters. From the perspective of BS transmission, increasing BS transmission power can greatly improve the secrecy performance in the low transmit power region, but the secrecy performance is constant in the high BS transmit power region. Moreover, in terms of adversaries, FD eavesdroppers have better wiretapping performance than HD eavesdroppers when the jamming power is relatively low; otherwise, this result is reversed.