Impact of Outdated CSI on the Secure Communication in Untrusted In-Band Full-Duplex Relay Networks

Abstract

To provide reliable connectivity in recent and future wireless communication systems, it is necessary to deploy several relay nodes. Further, a full-duplex (FD) technique has been in the spotlight since it can significantly improve spectral efficiency, and thus recent studies in relaying networks have considered FD relays. In relaying networks, confidentiality between the source and destination nodes from the relay node should be carefully kept since the relay node cannot be fully trusted, so called untrusted relay node. To this end, in this paper, we consider physical-layer security taking into account an untrusted FD relay node. We investigate a secure relaying protocol against the untrusted relay node where the destination generates artificial noise to prevent the untrusted relay from decoding the source information. We derive the analytical expression of the lower bound of the ergodic secrecy rate ( $\bar {R}$ ). We find two main factors affecting the secrecy performance: residual self-interference (RSI) at the FD-available nodes (i.e., relay and destination), and outdated channel state information (CSI) at the destination. Thereafter, we evaluate their effects on $\bar {R}$ and suggest the algorithm to find the sub-optimal artificial noise power level at the destination for maximizing $\bar {R}$ . Through simulations, we have verified our mathematical derivation and shown that our secure relaying protocol can achieve near-optimal secrecy performance. Numerical results imply that the artificial noise power level should be carefully considered when the channel is severely outdated and RSI is irresistible.

Keywords

• Physical-layer security
• untrusted relay
• full-duplex
• outdated channel state information
• artificial noise