Secure Transmission Scheme Design for SWIPT in Buffer-aided Relay Networks

In this paper, we investigate a secure relaying network with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). It is assumed that Alice wants to send confidential information to Bob under the existence of a passive eavesdropper (Eve), while the relay is equipped with a data buffer and an energy storage device. More specifically, we aim at achieving higher secrecy throughput, while retaining the stability of the data and energy queues. To achieve this with acceptable complexity, we transform the original long-term stochastic optimization problem into a series of online subproblems using the framework of Lyapunov optimization. The proposed scheme shows that the optimal time switching factor is 0 or 1, which is different from the conventional secure relaying network with SWIPT. In addition, simulation results verify that the proposed scheme can improve the secrecy throughput compared with the baseline scheme.