Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (1): 313-319.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.01.39

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Secrecy performance analysis of UAV-based communications against full-duplex eavesdropping

Danyu DIAO1, Buhong WANG1,*, Kunrui CAO2, Runze DONG1, Tianhao CHENG1   

  1. 1. School of Information and Navigation, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710077, China
    2. School of Information and Communications, National University of Defense Technology, Xi'an 710106, China
  • Received:2021-03-22 Online:2022-01-01 Published:2022-01-19
  • Contact: Buhong WANG

Abstract:

Focusing on the problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) energy limitation and communication vulnerability to eavesdropping attack, a wireless powered UAV communication model based on energy harvesting is proposed, and its secrecy performance under full-duplex proactive eavesdropping is analyzed. Firstly, the line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) path loss probabilistic model based on elevation is used to model the ground-air wireless channel. Secondly, the transmission outage probabilities of UAV is limited to a maximum tolerable threshold and the optimal coding rate of the base station is obtained, and then the analytical closed-form expression of UAV's secrecy outage probability is derived. Finally, Monte-Carlo simulations verify the validity of the theoretical derivation, and analyze the influence of base station's transmission power, time factor of energy harvesting, environments and other factors on the security of UAV communication, which provides a guide and basis for the design of actual system.

Key words: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication, physical layer security, secrecy outage probability, full-duplex proactive eavesdropping, energy harvesting

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