Secrecy Rate Maximization with Gridded UAV Swarm Jamming for passive Eavesdropping

Christantus O. Nnamani; Muhammad R. A. Khandaker; Mathini Sellathurai

doi:10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685395

Secrecy Rate Maximization with Gridded UAV Swarm Jamming for passive Eavesdropping

Christantus O. Nnamani, Muhammad R. A. Khandaker, Mathini Sellathurai

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Abstract

This paper considers the grid formation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm for maximizing the secrecy rate in the presence of an unknown eavesdropper. In particular, the UAV swarm performs coordinated beamforming onto the null space of the legitimate channel to jam the eavesdropper located at an unknown location. By nulling the channel between the legitimate receiver and the UAV swarm, we obtain an optimal trajectory and jamming power allocation for each UAV enabling wideband single ray beamforming to improve the secrecy rate. Results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed UAV-aided jamming scheme as well as the optimal number of UAVs in the swarm necessary to observe a saturation effect in the secrecy rate. We also show the optimal radius of the unknown but constrained location of the eavesdropper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728181042
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685395
Publication status	Published - 2 Feb 2022
Event	2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference - Madrid, Spain Duration: 7 Dec 2021 → 11 Dec 2021

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Conference	2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Abbreviated title	GLOBECOM 2021
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	7/12/21 → 11/12/21

Keywords

jamming
optimization
physical layer security
Secure communication
swarm
UAV

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems and Management
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Health Informatics

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