Secrecy rate with friendly full-duplex relay

Abstract

This paper considers the use of a friendly full-duplex (FD) relay to increase the secrecy rate over a fading channel between the legitimate source and destination in the presence of a naive or informed eavesdropper. Naive eavesdropper can only decode the received signals either from the source or from the relay, while informed eavesdropper can overhear signals transmitted from both the source and relay. Accordingly, we compare the achievable secrecy rates of FD relay with traditional half-duplex (HD) relay in terms of the channel state information (CSI) between nodes, eavesdropper types, and the self-interference (SI) in FD-Relay. We consider the non-convex power allocation problems for the developed FD-relay to maximize the secrecy rate under the power constraints and develop an efficient iterative algorithm based on the difference-of-two-concave-functions (DC) programming. The analytical and simulation results confirm that FD relay offers significant improvements in the secrecy rate over the HD-Relay.