This paper studies the secrecy communication in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, where a source sends confidential information to a destination in the presence of a potential eavesdropper. We employ wireless powered cooperative jamming to improve the secrecy rate of this system with the assistance of a cooperative jammer, which works in the harvestthen-jam protocol over two time slots. In the first slot, the source sends dedicated energy signals to power the jammer; in the second slot, the jammer uses the harvested energy to jam the eavesdropper, in order to protect the simultaneous secrecy communication from the source to the destination. In particular, we consider two types of receivers at the destination, namely Type-I and Type-II receivers, which do not have and have the capability of canceling the (a priori known) jamming signals, respectively. For both types of receivers, we maximize the secrecy rate at the destination by jointly optimizing the transmit power allocation at the source and the jammer over sub-carriers, as well as the time allocation between the two time slots. First, we present the globally optimal solution to this problem via the Lagrange dual method, which, however, is of high implementation complexity. Next, to balance the tradeoff between the algorithm complexity and performance, we propose alternative low-complexity solutions based on the minorization maximization and heuristic successive optimization, respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed approaches significantly improve the secrecy rate, as compared to benchmark schemes without joint power and time allocation. Index Terms-Joint power and time allocation, OFDM system, physical layer security, wireless powered cooperative jamming. He is currently a Lecturer at the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include the wireless cooperative systems, OFDM, MIMO, and resource allocation. Fan Lin received the M.Sc. degree in communication and
Zhang et al. REF proposed a harvest-then-jam protocol with the assistance of a jammer to improve the secrecy performance in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system.
Wireless Powered Cooperative Jamming for Secure OFDM System
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
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