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Secrecy capacity maximization for untrusted UAV-assisted cooperative communications with wireless information and power transfer

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This article addresses the problem of secure communication in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided wireless communication system in which a source sends confidential messages to a destination via an untrusted UAV mounted with a miniaturized energy-harvesting transceiver. The UAV can overhear the source’s confidential messages. To create a positive secrecy rate, the destination sends jamming signals during the communication. We aim to maximize the achievable secrecy rate for two scenarios: security-on-demand UAV (SoD-UAV), where the UAV can modify its trajectory and power-splitting (PS) ratio to serve the secure communication, and non-security-on-demand UAV (nSoD-UAV), where the UAV only forwards the source’s messages. For the nSoD-UAV, we optimize the transmit powers at the source and the destination for a given UAV’s trajectory and given PS ratios. For the SoD-UAV, the UAV’s trajectory, the PS ratios and the transmit powers are jointly optimized. Due to the non-convex optimization problems, we use successive convex optimization and block coordinate descent methods to find efficient approximate solutions. Numerical results verify that the achievable secrecy rate is significantly improved using the proposed algorithms.

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This work was supported by the Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2019R1A6A1A03032988).

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  1. Department of Information & Communication Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea

    Van Phu Tuan

  2. Institute of Fundamental and Applied Science, DuyTan University, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam

    Nguyen Quang Sang

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

    Hyung Yun Kong

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Appendices

Appendices

1.1 Appendix 1

The convexity of \(f_1(t_1,t_2)\) is confirmed through its Hessian matrix. By defining \(T=(t_1+a_1)(t_2+a_2)\), the first-order derivatives of \(f_1(t_1,t_2)\) are expressed by

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}{f_1}\left( t_1,t_2\right)&=\left( \tfrac{1}{T+a_0}-\tfrac{1}{T}\right) \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T, \end{aligned}$$
(36)
$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}{f_1}\left( t_1,t_2\right)&=\left( \tfrac{1}{T+a_0}-\tfrac{1}{T}\right) \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T, \end{aligned}$$
(37)

where

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T&=t_2+a_2, \end{aligned}$$
(38)
$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T&=t_1+a_1. \end{aligned}$$
(39)

Next, the second-order derivatives of \(f_1(t_1,t_2)\) are expressed by

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial ^2}{(\partial {t_1})^2}f_1\left( t_1,t_2\right)&=\left( \tfrac{1}{T^2}-\tfrac{1}{\left( T+a_0\right) ^2}\right) \left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\right) ^2, \end{aligned}$$
(40)
$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial ^2}{(\partial {t_2})^2}f_1\left( t_1,t_2\right)&=\left( \tfrac{1}{T^2}-\tfrac{1}{\left( T+a_0\right) ^2}\right) \left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T\right) ^2, \end{aligned}$$
(41)
$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial ^2}{\partial {t_1}\partial {t_2}}f_1\left( t_1,t_2\right)&=\left( \tfrac{1}{T^2}-\tfrac{1}{\left( T+a_0\right) ^2}\right) \nonumber \\&\quad \times \left( \left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\right) \left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T\right) -\tfrac{T\left( T+a_0\right) }{2T+a_0}\right) . \end{aligned}$$
(42)

Then the Hessian matrix is given by

$$\begin{aligned}&{H}=\left( \tfrac{1}{T^2}-\tfrac{1}{\left( T+a_0\right) ^2}\right) \times \nonumber \\&\left[ \begin{array}{cc} {\left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}T}\right) ^2}&{}{\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T-\tfrac{T\left( T+a_0\right) }{2T+a_0}}\\ {\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T-\tfrac{T\left( T+a_0\right) }{2T+a_0}}&{}{\left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T\right) ^2} \end{array}\right] . \end{aligned}$$
(43)

Let \(\mathbf{u }=\left[ u_1,u_2\right] ,\mathbf{u }\in {\mathbb {R}}^2\), and \(J=\left( \tfrac{1}{T^2}-\tfrac{1}{\left( T+a_0\right) }^2\right) ^{-1}\mathbf{u }H\mathbf{u }^\top \). Substituting (43) into J, we have

$$\begin{aligned} J&=\left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\right) ^2u_1^2+\left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T\right) ^2u_2^2\nonumber \\&\quad +2\left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T-\tfrac{T\left( T+a_0\right) }{2T+a_0}\right) u_1u_2. \end{aligned}$$
(44)

Using the fact that \(\tfrac{T}{2}\leqslant \tfrac{T\left( T+a_0\right) }{2T+a_0}\leqslant {T}\) as \(t_1>0\) and \(t_2>0\), and substituting (38) and (39) into (44), we have

$$\begin{aligned} J&\geqslant \left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\right) ^2u_1^2+\left( \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T\right) ^2u_2^2\nonumber \\&\quad -2\max \left( \left| \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T-\tfrac{T}{2}\right| ,\left| \tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_1}}T\tfrac{\partial }{\partial {t_2}}T-T\right| \right) \left| u_1u_2\right| \nonumber \\&=\left( \left( t_2+a_2\right) \left| u_1\right| +\left( t_1+a_1\right) \left| u_2\right| \right) ^2. \end{aligned}$$
(45)

Using (45), we show that H is a positive definite matrix; hence, Theorem 1 is proved.

1.2 Appendix 2

1.2.1 Convexity of \(f_2\left( \theta \right) \)

The first-order derivative of \(f_2\left( \theta \right) \) is expressed by

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial }{\partial \theta }f_2\left( \theta \right) =\left( \tfrac{a_1}{\left( 1-\theta \right) ^2}-\tfrac{a_2}{\theta ^2}\right) f_4\left( \theta \right) , \end{aligned}$$
(46)

where \(f_4\left( \theta \right) =\left( a_0+\tfrac{a_1}{1-\theta }+\tfrac{a_2}{\theta }\right) ^{-1}-\left( \tfrac{a_1}{1-\theta }+\tfrac{a_2}{\theta }\right) ^{-1}\).

Next, the second-order derivative of \(f_2\left( \theta \right) \) is expressed by

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial ^2}{\left( \partial \theta \right) ^2}f_2\left( \theta \right)&=\left( \frac{2a_1}{\left( 1-\theta \right) ^3}+\frac{2a_2}{\theta ^3}\right) f_4\left( \theta \right) -\left( \frac{a_1}{\left( 1-\theta \right) ^2} -\frac{A_2}{\theta ^2}\right) ^2\nonumber \\&\quad \times \left( \frac{1}{\tfrac{a_1}{1-\theta }+\tfrac{a_2}{\theta }+a_0} +\frac{1}{\tfrac{a_1}{1-\theta }+\tfrac{a_2}{\theta }}\right) f_4 \left( \theta \right) . \end{aligned}$$
(47)

After some manipulation, (47) can be written as

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial ^2}{\left( \partial \theta \right) ^2}f_2 \left( \theta \right) =\frac{f_4\left( \theta \right) f_5 \left( \theta \right) }{f_6\left( \theta \right) }, \end{aligned}$$
(48)

where

$$\begin{aligned} f_5\left( \theta \right)&={2}a_1^2a_2\theta ^2\left( 1-\theta \right) +2a_1a_2^2\theta \left( 1-\theta \right) ^2\nonumber \\&\quad +a_0\theta \left( 1-\theta \right) \left( a_2\left( 1-\theta \right) ^2+a_1\theta ^2\right) ^2\nonumber \\&\quad +2a_0a_1a_2\theta ^2\left( 1-\theta \right) ^2\left( \theta ^2+\left( 1-\theta \right) ^2\right) , \end{aligned}$$
(49)
$$\begin{aligned} f_6\left( \theta \right)&=\left( 1-\theta \right) ^3\theta ^3\left( a_0\theta \left( 1-\theta \right) +a_1\theta +a_2\left( 1-\theta \right) \right) \nonumber \\&\quad \times \left( a_1\theta +a_2\left( 1-\theta \right) \right) . \end{aligned}$$
(50)

Since \(f_4(\theta )<0,f_5(\theta )>0\) and \(f_6(\theta )>0,\forall \theta \in (0,1)\), we can confirm that \(\tfrac{\partial ^2}{\left( \partial \theta \right) ^2}f_2\left( \theta \right) <0,\forall \theta \in \left( 0,1\right) \). Therefore, \(f_2\left( \theta \right) \) is a concave function with respect to \(\theta \in \left( 0,1\right) \).

1.2.2 Convexity of \(f_3\left( \theta \right) \)

It is easy to obtain the second-order derivative of \(f_3\left( \theta \right) \) as

$$\begin{aligned} \tfrac{\partial ^2}{\left( \partial \theta \right) ^2}f_3 \left( \theta \right) =\left( 1+\tfrac{1}{a_1}-\theta \right) ^{-2}- \left( 1+\tfrac{1}{a_0+a_1}-\theta \right) ^{-2}. \end{aligned}$$
(51)

Since \(\tfrac{\partial ^2}{\left( \partial \theta \right) ^2}f_3\left( \theta \right) <0,\forall \theta \in \left( 0,1\right) \); hence, \(f_3\left( \theta \right) \) is a concave function with respect to \(\theta \in \left( 0,1\right) \).

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Tuan, V.P., Sang, N.Q. & Kong, H.Y. Secrecy capacity maximization for untrusted UAV-assisted cooperative communications with wireless information and power transfer. Wireless Netw 26, 2999–3010 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-020-02255-w

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