Secrecy Outage Analysis of Two-Hop Decode-and-Forward Mixed RF/UWOC Systems

We analyze the secrecy performance of a two-hop mixed radio frequency (RF)/underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system using a decode-and-forward (DF) relay. All RF and UWOC links are modeled by the \(\alpha-\mu\) and exponential-generalized Gamma distributions, respectively. We first de...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-09
Main Authors: Yi, Lou, Sun, Ruofan, Cheng, Julian, Nie, Donghu, Qiao, Gang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymptotic properties
Communications systems
Computer simulation
Monte Carlo simulation
Optical communication
Radio frequency
Underwater communication
Wireless communications
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Summary:We analyze the secrecy performance of a two-hop mixed radio frequency (RF)/underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system using a decode-and-forward (DF) relay. All RF and UWOC links are modeled by the \(\alpha-\mu\) and exponential-generalized Gamma distributions, respectively. We first derive the expressions of the secrecy outage probability (SOP) in exact closed-form, which are subsequently used to derive asymptotic expressions at high SNR that only includes simple functions for further insight. Moreover, based on the asymptotic expression, we can determine the optimal transmit power for a wide variety of RF and UWOC channel conditions. All analyses are validated using Monte Carlo simulation.
ISSN:2331-8422