Two Birds With One Stone: Towards Secure and Interference-Free D2D Transmissions via Constellation Rotation

• Published in: IEEE transactions on vehicular technology Vol. 65; no. 10; pp. 8767 - 8774
• Main Authors: Sun, Li, Du, Qinghe, Ren, Pinyi, Wang, Yichen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Constellation rotation; device-to-device (D2D) communications; Information exchange; Interference; interference avoidance; Physical layer; physical-layer security; Relays; Security; Signal to noise ratio; Sun
• ISSN: 0018-9545; 1939-9359
• DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2505715

This paper studies the cooperative device-to-device (D2D) transmissions in cellular networks, where two D2D users communicate bidirectionally with each other and simultaneously serve as relays to assist the two-way transmissions between two cellular users. For this scenario, both cellular and D2D links share the same spectrum, thus creating mutual interference. In addition to that, a security problem also exists since the cellular users want to keep their messages secret from the D2D users and vice versa. To address these two issues, a security-embedded interference avoidance scheme is proposed in this paper. By exploiting the constellation rotation technique, the proposed scheme can create interference-free links for both D2D and cellular communications, thereby significantly improving the system error performance. Moreover, our scheme also provides an inherent secrecy protection at the physical layer, which makes the information exchange between cellular users and that between D2D users confidential from each other.