8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Piecewise Linear AF in Relay-Eavesdropper Channel with Orthogonal Components

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694725,
        author={Bayun Wang and Zhixiang Deng and Chiyang Chen},
        title={Piecewise Linear AF in Relay-Eavesdropper Channel with Orthogonal Components},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={secrecy rate; piecewise linear relaying orthogonal relay-eavesdropper channel},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694725}
    }
    
  • Bayun Wang
    Zhixiang Deng
    Chiyang Chen
    Year: 2013
    Piecewise Linear AF in Relay-Eavesdropper Channel with Orthogonal Components
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694725
Bayun Wang1, Zhixiang Deng,*, Chiyang Chen1
  • 1: Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
*Contact email: dengzhixiang@gmail.com

Abstract

The four-terminal relay-eavesdropper channel with orthogonal receive components (i.e. the signals transmitted from the source and relay do not interfere each other) is studied in this paper. As the relay node merely repeats the received noisy signal with the conventional amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying strategy, AF is suboptimal. A piecewise linear AF (PLAF) relaying scheme is utilized to the channel model in this paper. Achievable secrecy rate with PLAF is derived and computed numerically. Numerical examples are given to show the performance improvement of PLAF compared with AF. Simulation results show that PLAF outperforms AF and achieves a higher secrecy rate than decode-and-forward (DF) in some certain cases but without complex encoding and decoding.