Secure Transmission in Cognitive MIMO Relaying Networks With Outdated Channel State Information

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce transmit antenna selection/maximal-ratio combining (TAS/MRC) scheme in dual-hop randomize-and-forward (RaF) cognitive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap networks with outdated channel state information (CSI). In this network, the secondary transmitter adopts the TAS scheme to choose the antenna with the maximal received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), while the secondary receiver and the eavesdropper adopt the MRC scheme to combine the received signals. To thoroughly assess the secrecy performance achieved by the TAS/MRC scheme and the impact of outdated CSI on the secrecy performance, we derive a new closed-form expression for the secrecy outage probability of dual-hop RaF cognitive MIMO wiretap networks. In order to achieve more insights on the application of TAS/MRC scheme, we further present tractable asymptotic secrecy outage probability at high SNR regimes under two distinct scenarios. From our analysis, several important concluding remarks are obtained as follows: 1) the RaF relaying strategy achieves better secrecy performance than that of the decode-and-forward relaying strategy for dual-hop cognitive MIMO wiretap networks; 2) outdated CSI decreases the secrecy diversity gain of the TAS/MRC scheme from ${N_{{R}}}\min \left ({ {{N_{{A}}},{N_{{B}}}} }\right )$ to $\min \left ({ {{N_{{R}}},{N_{{B}}}} }\right )$ ; and 3) although TAS/MRC scheme cannot attain full secrecy diversity gain for the considered system with outdated CSI, it still can achieve an extra secrecy coding gain compared with the random antenna selection/MRC scheme.