Exact Outage Probability of Two-Way Decode-and-Forward Scheme with Opportunistic Relay Selection Under Physical Layer Security

The combination of cooperative communication and physical layer security is an effective approach to overcome the disadvantages of the fading environment as well as to increase the security capacity of the wireless network. In this paper, we propose a two-way decode-and-forward scheme with a relay selection method. In the proposed protocol, two source nodes communicate with each other with the help of intermediate relays under the eavesdropping of another wireless node, called the eavesdropper node. The best relay, which is chosen by the max–min strategy, uses digital network coding to enhance secure communication and spectrum use efficiency. The system performance is analyzed and evaluated in terms of the exact closed-form outage probability over Rayleigh fading channels. The Monte-Carlo simulation results are presented to verify the theoretical analysis. Finally, the proposed protocol is compared with the two-way protocol, which does not use digital network coding.