A study of physical layer security with energy harvesting in single hop relaying environment

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of single hop relaying network with Energy Harvesting (EH) and also shows that the system with EH outperforms the conventional system in terms of secrecy rate and energy efficiency. In the proposed system, the source transmits the information signal to the destination via a relay in the presence of an eavesdropper and the source and relay utilizes time switching EH technique to obtain power from a power beacon. This paper compares the secrecy rate of two cooperative schemes: decode-and-forward (DF), and amplify-and-forward (AF) for both proposed system with EH and the conventional system. The system with EH provides higher secrecy rate than that of the conventional system by 30.47 % for DF cooperative scheme and by 23.63 % for AF relay at a distance of 40 m between the eavesdropper and the relay. The resulting analysis also shows that the secrecy rate of the AF relay is higher than that of the DF relay in both considered system with EH and conventional system.