Artificial noise-assisted physical layer security in D2D-enabled cellular networks

Abstract

Device-to-device (D2D) communication has been deemed as a promising technology in the next generation 5G wireless communication. Due to the openness nature of the transmission medium, secure transmission is also a critical issue in the D2D-enabled cellular network as well as other wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate secure communication for the cellular downlink in this hybrid network. We consider a case in which each base station has no channel state information (CSI) from D2D transmitters which are generally deployed in the cell edge. To guarantee the secure communication of the cellular link, each base station employs the artificial noise assisted transmission strategy. Firstly, we derive the close-form expression and asymptotic expression of the secrecy outage probability of the cellular link in different scenarios: (I) eavesdroppers having no multi-user decedability; (II) eavesdroppers having the multi-user decedability. Then, we comprehensively discuss the impacts of some main system parameters on the performance to provide some system design guidances. To characterize the reliable communication of the typical D2D link, the close-form expression and asymptotic expression of the connection outage probability are, respectively, derived and some comprehensive analysis are presented. Finally, simulation results are provided to validate the effectiveness of theoretical analysis.