Secrecy Performance of Terrestrial Radio Links under Collaborative Aerial Eavesdropping

Yuan, X; Feng, Z; Ni, W; Liu, RP; Zhang, JA; Xu, W

Secrecy Performance of Terrestrial Radio Links under Collaborative Aerial Eavesdropping

Yuan, X

Feng, Z Ni, W

Liu, RP Zhang, JA Xu, W

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2020, 15, pp. 604-619
Issue Date:: 2020-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Yuan, X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9167-1613
dc.contributor.author	Feng, Z
dc.contributor.author	Ni, W https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-594X
dc.contributor.author	Liu, RP
dc.contributor.author	Zhang, JA
dc.contributor.author	Xu, W
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dc.date.issued	2020-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2020, 15, pp. 604-619
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dc.description.abstract	© 2005-2012 IEEE. Motivated to understand the increasingly severe threat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the confidentiality of terrestrial radio links, this paper analyzes the ergodic and ϵ-outage secrecy capacities of the links in the presence of multiple cooperative aerial eavesdroppers flying autonomously in three-dimensional (3D) spaces and exploiting selection combining (SC) or maximal ratio combining (MRC). The 'cut-off' density of the eavesdroppers under which the secrecy capacities vanish is identified. By decoupling the analysis of the random trajectories from the random channel fading, closed-form approximations with almost sure convergence to the secrecy capacities are devised. The analysis is extended to study the impact of the oscillator phase noises and finite memories of the aerial eavesdroppers on the secrecy performance of the ground link. Validated by simulations, the cut-off density only depends on the range of the link in the case of SC eavesdropping, while it depends on the flight region of the eavesdroppers in the case of MRC eavesdropping.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
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dc.subject	08 Information and Computing Sciences, 09 Engineering
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dc.title	Secrecy Performance of Terrestrial Radio Links under Collaborative Aerial Eavesdropping
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© 2005-2012 IEEE. Motivated to understand the increasingly severe threat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the confidentiality of terrestrial radio links, this paper analyzes the ergodic and ϵ-outage secrecy capacities of the links in the presence of multiple cooperative aerial eavesdroppers flying autonomously in three-dimensional (3D) spaces and exploiting selection combining (SC) or maximal ratio combining (MRC). The 'cut-off' density of the eavesdroppers under which the secrecy capacities vanish is identified. By decoupling the analysis of the random trajectories from the random channel fading, closed-form approximations with almost sure convergence to the secrecy capacities are devised. The analysis is extended to study the impact of the oscillator phase noises and finite memories of the aerial eavesdroppers on the secrecy performance of the ground link. Validated by simulations, the cut-off density only depends on the range of the link in the case of SC eavesdropping, while it depends on the flight region of the eavesdroppers in the case of MRC eavesdropping.

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