Exploiting Adaptive Jamming in Secure Cooperative NOMA with an Untrusted Relay

We study secure communications with an untrusted relay for a cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a base station (BS) serves a near user (NU) and a far user (FU) by the NOMA principle, and transmission between BS and FU is aided by an untrusted relay. We propose an adaptive jamming scheme to enhance transmission security, in which FU is asked to adaptively emit a jamming signal to confuse the untrusted relay. The transmission rate for jamming is designed to ensure that only NU can decode the jamming signal correctly, and the jamming power is optimized for maximizing the secrecy sum rate. We analyze the security performance of the proposed scheme and derive the ergodic secrecy sum rate and its scaling law. Simulation results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive jamming scheme.