Secure Transmission for Downlink NOMA Visible Light Communication Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the two key problems in the physical-layer security of nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) visible light communication (VLC) networks: investigating a closed-form achievable security rate and studying the optimal security beamforming design. Specifically, under the dimming control, practical power, and successive interference cancellation constraints, we derive both the outer and inner bounds of the security capacity region with closed-form expressions, which are evaluated via numerical results. Then, based on the proposed security-rate expression, we investigated the optimal security beamforming design to minimize the total LED power, and to maximize the minimum secrecy rate, respectively. Both the problems are nonconvex. We apply different relaxation techniques to efficiently solve them. The simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed security beamforming design schemes in the NOMA VLC networks.

Keywords

• NOMA
• visible light communication
• physical-layer secrecy
• optimal beamforming