Secrecy analysis of cognitive radio network with MS-GSC/MRC scheme

Abstract

Abstract We propose and analyze minimum selection-generalized selection combining (MS-GSC) at secondary receiver (SR) with maximal ratio combining at eavesdropper (ER) to enhance data security at physical layer. We consider an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) where SR and ER are equipped with multiple antennas, and secondary transmitter (ST) has single antenna with a primary user. Passive eavesdropping is also taken into account.This work is aimed to find the effect of MS-GSC diversity technique on secrecy outage probability (SOP). We derive a closed-form expressions for the exact and asymptotic SOP. Our results show a positive impact on SOP with an increase in diversity branches and also reveal the effect of a primary user on secondary network.

Keywords

• Cognitive radio network
• Minimum selection-generalized selection combining (MS-GSC)
• Outage probability
• Physical layer security