Secrecy rate maximization for SIMO wiretap channel with uncoordinated cooperative jamming under secrecy outage probability constraint

A practical uncoordinated cooperative jamming (UCJ) scheme with multiple single-antenna helpers is proposed in this paper to enhance the physical layer security of single-input-multiple-output (SIMO) wiretap channel. In the scheme, both the intended receiver and the eavesdropper are equipped with multiple antennas and apply the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) combiner. The multiple uncoordinated single-antenna helpers transmit jamming signals independently to confound the eavesdropper, and we focus on power allocation for the helpers to solve the secrecy rate maximization (SRM) problem. Assuming that the statistical channel state information (CSI) concerning the eavesdropper is available, a convex conservative secrecy outage probability (SOP) constraint is derived and then used to solve the SRM problem with DC (difference of convex function) programming method. Furthermore, a bisection-like refinement method is provided to find a quality solution of the SRM problem with the original SOP constraint. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme has good secrecy performance especially when the number of helpers is large.