Securing Untrusted Full-Duplex Relay Channels in the Presence of Multiple External Cluster-Based Eavesdroppers

Abstract

We investigate the physical layer security of a wireless cooperative network where communication between Alice and Bob is assisted by a full-duplex (FD) untrusted relay, Ray, in the presence of multiple external eavesdroppers, Eves. A cluster-based colluding eavesdropping setting is considered, where illegitimate nodes with common interests are grouped in a cluster. To confuse the different eavesdropping clusters, we employ artificial-noise (AN) aided beamforming at the source node. Moreover, FD relay jamming is used to improve the system's security. To maintain secure communications against the untrusted relay node, an FD destination jamming scheme is adopted. Our proposed scheme is designed based on the channel state information of the legitimate nodes only. We optimize the transmit power allocation factors between data and AN signals, the data and AN precoders at Alice, the AN precoder at Bob, and the data and AN precoders at Ray. Numerical results show that the optimal power allocation factor between data and AN depends on the total number of antennas of the different colluding eavesdropping clusters.