Secrecy Outage Analysis for Alamouti Space–Time Block Coded Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access

Abstract

This letter proposed a novel transmission technique for physical layer security by applying the Alamouti Space-Time Block Coded Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (STBC-NOMA) scheme. The secure outage performance under both perfect successive interference cancellation (pSIC) and imperfect successive interference cancellation (ipSIC) are investigated. In particular, novel exact and asymptotic expressions of secrecy outage probability are derived. Numerical and theoretical results are presented to corroborate the derived expressions and to demonstrate the superiority of STBC-NOMA and its ability to enhance the secrecy outage performance compared to conventional NOMA.