Secure Transmission in HARQ-Assisted Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks

This paper investigates the secure transmission in hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where a security-required (SR) user is paired with an opportunity-served (OS) user to perform NOMA. Different from the previous works where NOMA and HARQ are separately considered for secure transmissions, in this paper, both NOMA and HARQ are utilized to enhance the security of the SR user. We derive the closed-form expressions for connection outage probability (COP), secrecy outage probability (SOP), reliable and secure transmission probability (RSP) and effective secrecy throughput (EST) of the SR user in both maximum ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining (SC) schemes. The security-reliability trade-off (SRT) results of the SR user in both MRC and SC schemes are also provided. Analysis and simulation results show that HARQ improves secrecy performance in MRC and SC schemes in terms of RSP, especially in low transmit power region. Besides, since every retransmission is utilized in the MRC scheme, it strictly outperforms the SC scheme in terms of the SRT metric. However, the SC scheme has the potential to achieve higher EST than the MRC scheme by optimizing the transmit power or the power allocation factor. Significantly, the quality of service (QoS) of the OS user can be guaranteed by pairing an SR user who is far away from the transmitter and the secrecy performance of the SR user can be enhanced by pairing an OS user.

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