Secrecy performance of untrusted relay’s cooperation under fading channels

Abstract

The secrecy performance of cooperation with an untrusted relay under a quasi-static fading channel is analyzed in this paper. An achievable secrecy rate is provided and the influence of selfish behavior of untrusted relay is analyzed. Furthermore, the secrecy performance of the scheme is discussed and compared with that of the case where the relay is just an eavesdropper. Simulation results show that the untrusted relay’s cooperation in the fading case reduces the outage probability from 1/2 to 1/3 and achieves a higher outage secrecy capacity.

Keywords

physical layer security / secrecy rate / outage secrecy capacity

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