Security- and Reliability-Guaranteed Transmission Control of Time-Sensitive Physical Layer Security Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we consider information transmission over a three-node physical layer security system. Based on the imperfect estimations of the main channel and the eavesdropping channel, we propose reducing the outage probability and interception probability by hindering transmissions in cases where the main channel is too strong or too weak, which is referred to as an SNR-gated transmission control scheme. Specifically, Alice gives up its chance to transmit a packet if the estimated power gain of the main channel is smaller than a certain threshold so that possible outages can be avoided; Alice also becomes silent if the estimated power gain is larger than another threshold so that possible interceptions at Eve can be avoided. We also consider the timeliness of the network in terms of the violation probability of the peak age of information (PAoI). We present the outage probability, interception probability, and PAoI violation probability explicitly; we also investigate the trade-off among these probabilities, considering their weight sum. Our numerical and Monte Carlo results show that by using the SNR-gated transmission control, both the outage probability and the interception probability are reduced.

Keywords

• age of information
• physical layer security
• transmission control
• outage probability
• interception probability