Physical Layer Security in Untrusted Diamond Relay Networks With Imperfect Source-Relay Links

Abstract

A two-untrusted-relay transmission scheme is proposed with lossy-forward (LF) relaying being utilized. Two untrusted relays are located between one source and one common destination and there is no direct link between the source and the destination, which referred to as diamond relaying network. Since LF relaying allows intra-link errors and always forwards the decoded information sequences from the relays to the destination, it realizes the reliable and secure transmission of decoder-and-forward based relay networks with untrusted relays. Reliable-and-secure probability is derived to evaluate the performance of the untrusted relay networks, which represents the probability that the destination can recover the original message sent from the source whereas the relays cannot. We find that as long as the contributions of the transmit power of source and relays are balanced, a certain degree of reliable-and-secure probability can be held, even without the support from a friendly jamming signal.