Colluding eavesdroppers in large cooperative wireless networks

• Securing communication against non-colluding passive eavesdroppers has been extensively studied. Colluding eavesdroppers were considered for interference-limited large networks. However, collusion was not investigated for large cooperative networks. This paper closes this gap: we study the improvement the eavesdroppers achieve due to collusion in terms of the information leakage rate in a large cooperative network. We consider a dense network with nl legitimate nodes, ne eavesdroppers, and path loss exponent α ≥ 2. We show that if ne (2+2/α) (log ne)γ = o(n l) holds, for some positive γ, then zero-cost secure communication is possible; i.e., ne colluding eavesdroppers can be tolerated. This means that our scheme achieves unbounded secure aggregate rate, given a fixed total power constraint for the entire network.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Information theory

Colluding eavesdroppers

Cooperative networks

Cooperative wireless networks

Information leakage

Large networks

Passive eavesdroppers

Path loss exponent

Secure communications

Communication

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