JOURNAL ARTICLE

Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communication Systems With Randomly Located Colluding Eavesdroppers

Sunghwan ChoGaojie ChenJustin P. Coon

Year: 2018 Journal:   IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Vol: 7 (5)Pages: 768-771   Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Abstract

This letter investigates the secrecy performance in visible light communication (VLC) in the presence of randomly located colluding eavesdroppers (EDs). Colluding EDs can combine their observations and degrade the secrecy performance of the VLC systems. Utilizing the numerical inversion of a characteristic function, the probability distribution of the combined signal-to-noise ratio of colluding EDs is analyzed. The closed-form expression of the secrecy outage probability is derived and verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords:
Secrecy Visible light communication Physical layer Computer science Monte Carlo method Outage probability Probability density function Signal-to-noise ratio (imaging) Communications system Expression (computer science) Closed-form expression Statistical physics Electronic engineering Telecommunications Wireless Physics Computer security Optoelectronics Mathematics Fading Statistics Engineering Mathematical analysis Light-emitting diode

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