Tran Trung Duy

Relay Selection for Security Enhancement in Cognitive Relay Networks

This letter proposes several relay selection policies for secure communication in cognitive decode-and-forward relay networks, where a pair of cognitive relays is opportunistically selected for security protection against eavesdropping. The first relay transmits the secrecy information to the destination, and the second relay, as a friendly jammer, transmits the jamming signal to confound the eavesdropper. We present new exact closed-form expressions for the secrecy outage probability. Our analysis and simulation results strongly support our conclusion that the proposed relay selection policies can enhance the performance of secure cognitive radio. We also confirm that the error floor phenomenon is created in the absence of jamming.

Proactive Relay Selection With Joint Impact of Hardware Impairment and Co-Channel Interference

In this paper, we investigate the end-to-end performance of dual-hop proactive decode-and-forward relaying networks with Nth best relay selection in the presence of two practical deleterious effects: i) hardware impairment and ii) co-channel interference. In particular, we derive new exact and asymptotic closed-form expressions for the outage probability and average channel capacity of Nth best partial and opportunistic relay selection schemes over Rayleigh fading channels. Insightful discussions are provided. It is shown that, when the system cannot select the best relay for cooperation, the partial relay selection scheme outperforms the opportunistic method under the impact of the same co-channel interference (CCI) . In addition, without CCI but under the effect of hardware impairment, it is shown that both selection strategies have the same asymptotic channel capacity. Monte Carlo simulations are presented to corroborate our analysis.

Exact outage probability of cognitive two-way relaying scheme with opportunistic relay selection under interference constraint

In this study, the authors analyse the outage performance of a cognitive two-way relaying system under an interference constraint. In the proposed protocol, the best relay which is chosen by an opportunistic relay selection strategy, combines the received packets using XOR operation and then forwards the combined packet to two secondary sources. The authors derive an exact closed-form expression of outage probability over flat and block Rayleigh fading channels. Various Monte-Carlo simulations are presented to verify the theoretical analyses and to compare the performance of the proposed protocol with that of the two-way relaying protocol without network coding.

Performance Analysis of Two-Way Hybrid Decode-and-Amplify Relaying Scheme with Relay Selection for Secondary Spectrum Access

In this paper, we propose and analyze the outage probability of a two-way hybrid decode-and-amplify relaying scheme with relay selection for secondary spectrum access. In this scheme, a secondary network is co-located and uses the same spectrum as the primary network. The primary network is comprised of two primary terminals that attempt to transmit signals to one another; the secondary network is comprised of M secondary transmitter-receiver pairs (ST-SR). One of the secondary transmitters chosen to cooperate with the primary network uses a hybrid decode-and-amplify forward technique in order to relay primary and secondary signals. We derive expressions for the outage probability of the primary network as well as the secondary network over a Rayleigh fading channel. Simulation results are presented to verify theoretical analyses and to compare the performance of the proposed protocol to that of a two-way direct transmission protocol.

Performance Analysis of Incremental Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Protocols with Nth Best Partial Relay Selection Under Interference Constraint

In this paper, we investigate two incremental amplify-and-forward relaying protocols in cognitive underlay networks. In the proposed protocols, whenever the secondary destination cannot receive the secondary source’s signal successfully, it requests a retransmission from one of M secondary relays. In the first protocol, we assume that a secondary relay with the Nth best channel gain to the secondary source is used to forward the received signal to the secondary destination. In the second protocol, relying on the quality of channels between the secondary relay and secondary destination and between the secondary relay and primary user, the Nth best relay is chosen for the retransmission. We derive exact closed-form expressions of the outage probability and average number of time slots for both protocols over Rayleigh fading channel. Finally, these mathematical expressions are then verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

Secured cooperative cognitive radio networks with relay selection

In this paper, we propose physical layer security for cooperative cognitive radio networks (CCRNs) with relay selection in the presence of multiple primary users and multiple eavesdroppers. To be specific, we propose three relay selection schemes, namely, opportunistic relay selection (ORS), suboptimal relay selection (SoRS), and partial relay selection (PRS) for secured CCRNs, which are based on the availability of channel state information (CSI) at the receivers. For each approach, we derive exact and asymptotic expressions for the secrecy outage probability. Results show that under the assumption of perfect CSI, ORS outperforms both SoRS and PRS.

Performance analysis of hybrid decode-amplify-forward incremental relaying cooperative diversity protocol using SNR-based relay selection

In this paper, we propose a hybrid decode-amplify-forward incremental cooperative diversity protocol using SNR-based relay selection. In the proposed protocol, whenever destination unsuccessfully receives the sources signal, one of relays that exploit hybrid decode-amplify-forward technique is chosen to retransmit the signal. We derive approximate closed-form expressions of outage probability and average channel capacity. MonteCarlo simulations are presented to verify the theoretical results and compare the performance of the proposed protocol with the direct transmission protocol and conventional incremental relaying protocols.

Outage performance of cognitive cooperative networks with relay selection over double-Rayleigh fading channels

This study considers a dual-hop cognitive inter-vehicular relay-assisted communication system where all communication links are non-line of sight ones and their fading is modelled by the double Rayleigh fading distribution. Road-side relays (or access points) implementing the decode-and-forward relaying protocol are employed and one of them is selected according to a predetermined policy to enable communication between vehicles. The performance of the considered cognitive cooperative system is investigated for Kth best partial and full relay selection (RS) as well as for two distinct fading scenarios. In the first scenario, all channels are double Rayleigh distributed. In the second scenario, only the secondary source to relay and relay to destination channels are considered to be subject to double Rayleigh fading whereas, channels between the secondary transmitters and the primary user are modelled by the Rayleigh distribution. Exact and approximate expressions for the outage probability performance for all considered RS policies and fading scenarios are presented. In addition to the analytical results, complementary computer simulated performance evaluation results have been obtained by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The perfect match between these two sets of results has verified the accuracy of the proposed mathematical analysis.

Cognitive cooperative networks in dual-hop asymmetric fading channels

Previous works on cognitive relay networks (CRNs) considered only symmetric fading channels. However, in practical wireless propagation scenarios, it is likely that the channels of the secondary user (SU) and primary user (PU) may undergo different fading characteristics. In this paper, we assume that the channels of the secondary network (SU-source→SU-relay→SU-destination) are subject to Rician fading, whereas the channels of the link from the SU to the PU experience Rayleigh fading. Based on this framework, the end-to-end outage probability (OP) of CRNs is investigated for two different relaying schemes: i) in the absence of the direct link with decode-and-forward (DF) protocol and ii) in the presence of the direct link with incremental DF protocol. In particular, we derive both exact and asymptotic OP expressions for the considered CRNs. Our analysis reveals important insights into the impact of fading parameters on the CRN performance under distinct fading distributions.

On performance evaluation of hybrid decode-amplify-forward relaying protocol with partial relay selection in underlay cognitive networks

In this paper, we evaluate performance of a hybrid decode-amplify-forward relaying protocol in underlay cognitive radio. In the proposed protocol, a secondary relay which is chosen by partial relay selection method helps a transmission between a secondary source and a secondary destination. In particular, if the chosen relay decodes the secondary sources signal successfully, it will forward the decoded signal to the secondary destination. Otherwise, it will amplify the signal received from the secondary source and will forward the amplified signal to the secondary destination. We evaluate the performance of our scheme via theory and simulation. Results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward protocols in terms of outage probability.