Hybrid relaying and jamming for secure two-way relay networks with passive eavesdroppers

Abstract

Exploiting the idea of cooperative communications is an efficient way to improve the physical-layer security of a wireless transmission in the presence of passive eavesdroppers. In this paper, we propose a hybrid cooperative relaying and jamming scheme to enhance the security of a two-way relay network, where some intermediate nodes help to relay the signal to the legitimate terminals via distributed beamforming and the others jam the eavesdropper simultaneously. In such a way, both two cooperative phases of the data transmission are protected. Subjected to the more practical per-node power constraint of each node and without the channel state information (CSI) of the eavesdropper, we propose a scheme to enhance the secrecy of the two terminals. It is shown that the problem can be transformed into a semidefinite programming (SDP) problem with an additional rank-1 constraint. We then develop a penalty function method and an iterative algorithm to solve such a problem efficiently, instead of the popular semi-definite relaxation (SDR) and randomization techniques proposed in the previous literatures. Simulations show that the proposed hybrid scheme greatly improves the security of the two-way relay networks.