Maximizing Secrecy Rate and Performance Analysis of Relay Selection for Cooperative Diversity Networks in Presence of an Eavesdropper
MinChul Ju, Tai-Gil Kwon, Jin-Woong Cho · Journal of Korea Multimedia Society · 2015
We study relay selection in decode-and-forward (DF)-based relay networks consisting of a source, a destination, an eavesdropper, and multiple relays, where each terminal has a single antenna and operates in a half-duplex mode. In these networks, it is desirable to protect the confidential message from the source to the destination against the eavesdropper with the help of a single selected relay. Specifically, we begin by investigating DF-based networks for the scenario instantaneous signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) related to the eavesdropper are available. For the scenario, we propose relay selection to maximize the secrecy rate of DF-based networks with and without direct-paths, and we derive the exact secrecy outage probabilities in closed-form.