Robust proactive eavesdropping in UAV-enabled wireless communication networking

• Published in: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking 2019-12, Vol.2019 (1), p.1-11, Article 285
• Main Authors: Wu, Wei, Wang, Yujing, Mo, Jianlin, Liu, Jian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Beamforming; Caching and Computation Issues in UAV-Enabled B5G Wireless Communication; Cognitive radio; Communications Engineering; Eavesdropping; Engineering; Exact solutions; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Jamming; Networking; Networks; Proactive eavesdropping; Robust; Robustness (mathematics); Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communications; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 1687-1499; 1687-1472; 1687-1499
• DOI: 10.1186/s13638-019-1599-6

In this paper, we considered a robust beamforming design problem for a proactive eavesdropping via jamming, in which a full-duplex legitimate monitor tries to eavesdrop on a suspicious communication link between the secondary pairs in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled cognitive radio network. Due to the channel estimation errors, we assume that the channel state information is not perfectly known. To ensure the successful eavesdropping, jamming signals are designed to disrupt the suspicious receivers and the primary receiver at the same time, which should have the good tradeoff between those two effects. We aimed to maximize the achievable eavesdropping rate under the transmitting power constraint at the legitimate monitor and the interference temperature constraint at the primary receiver, which was formulated as a non-convex problem with infinite constraints. We firstly transform the original problem into a simplified one with finite constraints. Then, an analytical solution in significant low-complexity is proposed by decomposing the simplified problem. Numerical results are finally presented to evaluate the performance of our proposed schemes in UAV-enabled wireless communication networking.