Physical Layer Security in AF-Based Cooperative SWIPT Sensor Networks

in IEEE Sensors Journal (2022)

Physical layer security (PLS) with radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) in wireless sensor networks has received significant interest as a technology for secure information transmission and ... [more ▼]

Physical layer security (PLS) with radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) in wireless sensor networks has received significant interest as a technology for secure information transmission and prolonging the network lifetime as well as improving energy efficiency. This paper investigates PLS for a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) cooperative network, which consists of multiple sensor sources, one EH relay (R), and one destination (D) in the presence of one eavesdropper (E). Further, a low-complexity, suboptimal, yet efficient sensor source selection scheme is proposed. Specifically, one sensor source is chosen to transmit information to the relay and destination such that it obtains the best channel from sensor sources to the relay. Then, by considering two relaying strategies, termed the direct link plus static power splitting-based relaying (SPSR) and direct link plus optimal dynamic power splitting-based relaying (ODPSR), the performance analysis in terms of intercept probability (IP) and outage probability (OP) are carried out for each one. Notably, the eavesdropper and destination utilize maximal ratio combining (MRC) to incorporate the received signals from the selected sensor source and the relay, which poses new challenges in obtaining the analytical expressions. In this context, we derive analytical expressions for the OP (for SPSR and ODPSR) at the destination and the IP (for SPSR) at the eavesdropper by adopting the series representation of the modified Bessel function. Finally, Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to validate the theoretical analysis and the proposed schemes’ effectiveness. Simulation results show the superiority of our scheme compared to the benchmarks. [less ▲]

Performance Enhancement for Multihop Harvest-to-Transmit WSNs With Path-Selection Methods in Presence of Eavesdroppers and Hardware Noises

in IEEE Sensors Journal (2018), 18(12), 5173-5186

Energy-harvesting-based physical layer security (PLS) has become a promising technique, as it not only secures information from eavesdropping without upper layer data encryption, but it also improves the ... [more ▼]

Energy-harvesting-based physical layer security (PLS) has become a promising technique, as it not only secures information from eavesdropping without upper layer data encryption, but it also improves the energy efficiency of wireless networks. However, it imposes new challenges, as adversary parties can overhear the transmission of confidential information between the source and destination via a relay. Therefore, the transmit power of the signals must be large enough for energy harvesting, but it must also be small enough to avoid eavesdropping. This is even more challenging with multi-hop multi-path wireless networks. Motivated by these observations, this paper proposes three innovative protocols, namely, the shortest path selection (SPS) protocol, random path selection (RPS) protocol, and best path selection (BPS) protocol. These will enhance the security of multi-hop multi-path randomize-and-forward (RF) cooperative wireless sensor networks (WSNs) under the presence of eavesdroppers and hardware impairment, wherein the source node and relay nodes are capable of harvesting energy from beacon for data transmission. Furthermore, we derive exact closed-form expressions and the asymptotic outage probability for each protocol under multiple eavesdropping attacks. The simulation results validate the theoretical results. [less ▲]

On Optimal Scheduling in Duty-Cycled IoT Industrial Applications using IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH

in IEEE Sensors Journal (2013), 13(10), 3655-3666