Exploiting Secure Multi-Hop Transmissions with NOMA Networks: Performance Analysis

In this paper, we analyze the secrecy performance of secure multi-hop transmission for the NOMA system. More specifically, the multi-hop transmission can extend the coverage of wireless transmission. However, according to the principle of the wireless medium, an eavesdropper can overhear the legitimate users' transmission, which leads to serious security issues. In order to analyze the relationship between network parameters and secrecy outage probability, we derive exact closed-form expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of cell center and cell edge users, respectively. The numerical results show that the simulation and analysis results are tightly matched. Additionally, we investigate the impact of the number of hops and the distance on the secrecy performance.