Abstract
This paper investigates the benefits of the existing diversity in the parallel use of both power line and wireless channels, which is termed hybrid power line communication (PLC)/wireless, to improve physical layer security (PLS) for low-bit-rate applications. In this regard, mathematical formulations of the ergodic achievable secrecy rate and the secrecy outage probability are developed for the hybrid PLC/wireless channel model and its incomplete versions. The results show that the hybrid PLC/wireless channel model can provide remarkable benefits in terms of PLS for low-bit-rate applications when the eavesdropper makes use of only one data communication interface.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 8482300 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2760-2769 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Internet of Things Journal |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Signal Processing
- Information Systems
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications
Keywords
- Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
- physical layer security (PLS)
- power line communication (PLC)
- secrecy rate
- wireless communication