Abstract-In this paper, we study physical layer security in an underlay cognitive radio (CR) network. We consider the problem of secure communication between a secondary transmitterreceiver pair in the presence of randomly distributed eavesdroppers under an interference constraint set by the primary user. For different channel knowledge assumptions at the transmitter, we design four transmission protocols to achieve the secure transmission in the CR network. We give a comprehensive performance analysis for each protocol in terms of transmission delay, security, reliability, and the overall secrecy throughput. Furthermore, we determine the optimal design parameter for each transmission protocol by solving the optimization problem of maximizing the secrecy throughput subject to both security and reliability constraints. Numerical results illustrate the performance comparison between different transmission protocols. Index Terms-Physical layer security, cognitive radio networks, on-off transmission, secrecy guard zone.
Xu et al. REF investigated PHY-layer security in an underlay cognitive radio (CR) network in the presence of randomly distributed eavesdroppers.
Secure Transmission Design for Cognitive Radio Networks With Poisson Distributed Eavesdroppers
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Computer Science