Secrecy Enhancement of Cooperative NOMA Networks With Two-Way Untrusted Relaying

Abstract

The two-way relaying (TWR) technique has been confirmed to achieve higher spectral efficiency and average sum rate compared with the one-way relaying (OWR) technique in ultra-dense next generation networks with limited spectal resources. In this paper, an enhanced secrecy cooperative TWR scheme for cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks against untrusted relaying is highlighted. Specifically, with the application of NOMA principle, a base station (Bs) communicates with two trusted users, i.e., namely a near and a far users, where the communication with the far user takes place only via an untrusted relay (UR) employing both TWR and analog network coding (ANC) mechanisms. To minimize information leakage at the UR, the far user transmits its uplink signal simultaneously with Bs's downlink signal to confuse the eavesdropping capability of the UR by increasing inter-user interference (IUI). To investigate the benefits of the proposed scheme, asymptotic lower bound expressions of the ergodic secrecy sum rate (ESSR) of uplink/downlink rates and their scaling law are derived to characterize the secrecy performance. The system parameters have been carefully studied to maitain the desired ESSR performance where we obtain an optimal value for the uplink power sharing coefficient with an arbitrary known value of the downlink one. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve scaling gain of 1/8 ln ρ of positive ESSR over the untrusted OWR scheme with adaptive uplink/downlink jamming and a significant gain over the other conventional NOMA uplink/downlink schemes in two time slots of communication.

Keywords

• Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
• two-way relaying~(TWR) techniques
• untrusted relay (UR)
• ergodic secrecy sum rate~(ESSR)
• inter-user interference (IUI)