Secure communication for wireless energy harvesting decode and forward relay in presence of an eavesdropper

In this paper, we analyze the secrecy performance of a dual hop communication system with decode and forward relay (DFR) in the presence of an eavesdropper (EAV), which operates in full duplex mode. The secrecy capacity of the system is enhanced by using a Hybrid scheme of combination of time switching-based relaying (TSR) and power splitting-based relaying (PSR). A novel scheme of assisting the confidential information transmission by simultaneous transmission of jamming signal is presented. Both relay and EAV harvest energy from RF signals by using the Hybrid scheme. The performance of the scheme is evaluated in terms of secrecy outage probability (SOP) under several conditions of network parameters and SNRs of inter node channels. We also compare the results of PSR scheme alone in terms of SOP with Hybrid scheme under our proposed jamming model. MATLAB based simulation of our scheme demonstrates significant reduction of SOP.