Secrecy performance analysis of energy harvesting wireless networks with multiple power transfer stations and destinations in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers

Nowadays, physical layer secrecy has become the new approach to enhance information security of wireless networks and have attracted the attention of lot of researchers in the world. This paper investigates the physical layer secrecy performance of radio frequency energy harvesting (RF-EH) networks over Rayleigh fading channels. The considered RF-EH system consists of multiple power transfer stations, one source and multiple destinations in the presence of multiple passive eavesdroppers. The best power transfer station and the best received signal at destination is selected among multiple power transfer stations and among multiple destinations respectively. By using statistical characteristics of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the exact closed-form expressions of existence probability of secrecy capacity and secrecy outage probability are derived. Finally, simulation results confirm an agreement between our analysis and equivalent Monte-Carlo simulations.