QoS Driven Power Allocation in Secure Multicarrier Full-Duplex Relay Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the quality-of-service (QoS) driven robust power allocation policy with channel uncertainty in the secure multicarrier full-duplex (FD) relay communication system, where the statistical delay QoS is given by the secure effective capacity (SEC). To maximize the SEC under the constraints of both the total system power and the residual loopback interference (LI) power of the FD relay, an optimization problem is formulated and the corresponding power allocation strategy has been presented in the case of perfect channel state information (CSI) and imperfect CSI. Specially, considering the imperfect CSI, we propose a robust power allocation scheme, where the channel uncertainty is modeled by a bounded region. Furthermore, the worst-case method and the Bernstein approximations are utilized to deal with the uncertainty. After the Taylor approximation based simplification of the formulated optimization problem, the optimal solution is obtained by subgradient descent algorithm based on Lagrangian dual method and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. With known error range of CSI, numerical results and analysis illustrate that the proposed robust power allocation strategy can satisfy the statistical delay QoS requirement very well. Furthermore, the trade-off between the SEC and the robustness can be achieved with channel uncertainty.