Kong, Zhengmin, Gan, Li, Song, Jing, Huang, Tao, Yin, Weijun, Yan, Shihao, and Yuan, Jinhong (2025) Robust Outage-Constrained Secrecy Rate of Hybrid Power Line and Wireless Communication With Artificial Noise-Aided Beamforming for Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 73 (6). pp. 3940-3955.

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Abstract

Power line communication is a critical component of smart grids, which are vulnerable to eavesdropping. To address this challenge, we investigate a cooperative relay hybrid power line and wireless communication system where multiple eavesdroppers are considered. We propose an elaborate artificial noise (AN)-aided beamforming (BF) scheme to improve physical layer security. Our scheme maximizes the outage-constrained secrecy rate (OCSR) of the legitimate link while restricting the capacity of the eavesdroppers to a reasonable region. However, due to the imperfect channel state information of the wiretap channel and secrecy outage probability constraint, the robust OCSR problem becomes intractable because of the non-concave secrecy objective function and the non-convex constraints. To solve this issue, we utilize semidefinite programming and Bernstein-type inequality to transform the robust OCSR nonconvex problem into two convex sub-problems, which a block-coordinated descent algorithm can solve. Simulation results showcase the effectiveness of our robust AN-aided secure BF scheme and show that the proposed scheme outperforms the benchmark scheme in a security performance gain under various channel conditions, even in the worst case.

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