GLOBECOM 2016 - 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Abstract
In this work, we consider a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with an energy harvesting (EH) jammer where an eavesdropper tries to wiretap the communication between a user and a hybrid access-point (H-AP). In our system, the H-AP first transmits an energy signal to recharge the batteries of the EH user and the EH jammer in the energy transfer (ET) phase. Then, in the subsequent information transfer (IT) phase, the user sends its information signal to the H-AP, while the jammer generates the jamming signal to interfere the eavesdropper utilizing the harvested energy in the ET phase. Assuming only the channel distribution information (CDI) of the eavesdropper is available at the legitimate nodes, we analyze and minimize the secrecy outage probability by optimizing the time allocation between the two phases. To reduce the complexity, we also provide a simple closed-form solution, and the simulation results verify that its performance approaches the optimum.