Security enhancement in cooperative jamming using compromised secrecy region minimization

Abstract

A cooperative jamming system is investigated to enhance security of wireless communications in the presence of eavesdroppers. Different from traditional wireless security strategies that maximize secrecy capacity, a novel strategy based on the minimization of compromised secrecy region (CSR) is proposed. The secrecy region with a given secrecy outage probability is derived by considering path-loss and fading channel effects. Through numerical approximation of the outage probability, the optimal location and allocated power of the jammer are calculated to minimize the CSR which exhibits high secrecy outage probability. Without knowing the exact location of the randomly-distributed eavesdropper, our proposed scheme provides a new optimization criterion based on this compromised area minimization, thereby increasing the security level in cooperative jamming systems. Numerical results further validate the proposed CSR minimization scheme for cooperative jamming.