This paper explores the potential of physical layer security for K- tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with nonbest user association (UA) scheme. By modeling the spatial positions of network elements in each tier as homogeneous Poisson point processes (PPPs), we first present the non-best UA probability of a typical user equipment associating with the m-th average biased received power (ABRP) with passive eavesdroppers, then the expression of total secrecy probability for the K-tier HetNets is derived with stochastic geometry. Both the analytical and numerical results show that the implementation of the non-best UA scheme can significantly improve the secrecy probability, which indicates that non-best UA could be a promising solution for safeguarding K-tier HetNets. Moreover, we show that the secrecy probability with non-best UA scheme is not always decreasing over the transmission power of the base stations, which is quite different from the best ones.


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    Title :

    Safeguarding Non-Best User Association Aided 5G K-Tier HetNets Using Physical Layer Security


    Contributors:
    Zhou, Meng (author) / Xie, Mangang (author) / Zhang, Yao (author) / Jia, Xiangdong (author) / Yang, Longxiang (author)


    Publication date :

    2019-04-01


    Size :

    9999566 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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