An analysis on secure millimeter wave NOMA communications in cognitive radio networks

Abstract

In this paper, an easy analysis framework is developed to evaluate the reliability and security of the secondary receivers (SU-Rxs) in millimeter wave (mmWave) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) aided cognitive radio (CR) networks, where secondary transmitters (SU-Txs) transmit confidential messages to SU-Rxs belonging to different regions under the interference temperature constraint of the primary receiver (PU-Rx). Considering that randomly located eavesdroppers and primary user may be in the signal beam emitted by the SU-Txs, information leakage and interference to the primary network will be inevitable issues. Motivated by these challenges, combining the key features of multi-cell mmWave networks and NOMA communications, the closed-form expressions of three key performance metrics of connection outage probability (COP), secrecy outage probability (SOP), and secrecy throughput (ST) are derived by using the sector eavesdropper-exclusion zone, and the reliability and secrecy performance of the secondary networks are measured by different system parameters. The obtained performance evaluation results have demonstrated that the interference temperature constraint of the PU-Rx can be used to balance the security and reliability of the secondary networks. The reliability and security of paired NOMA users can be improved by using reasonable power allocation factor and sector eavesdropper-exclusion zone. Meanwhile, the connection performance of paired NOMA users is better than orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Furthermore, various system parameters can be reasonably set in conjunction with blockage and inter-cell interference to achieve optimal network's performance.