Title
Data-Driven Relay Selection for Physical-Layer Security: A Decision Tree Approach
Abstract
Conventional optimization-driven secure relay selection relies on maximization algorithm and accurate channel state information (CSI) of both legitimate and eavesdropper channels. Particularly, estimating and collecting accurate eavesdropper CSI is a difficult task. In this paper, we exploit the benefits of machine learning in solving secure relay selection problem from a data-driven perspective. We convert secure relay selection to a multiclass-classification problem and solve it by a decision-tree-based scheme, which is composed of three phases - preparing training data, building decision tree and predicting relay selection. To meet decision tree's requirement that input features must take discrete values, a feature extraction method is proposed to generate discrete input by quantizing the accurate CSI of legitimate and eavesdropper channels. By this means, the decision-tree-based relay selection only requires quantized CSI feedback which takes substantially fewer bits in predicting phase. For the purpose of optimizing quantization parameters and enhancing decision tree prediction, we further derive three splitting criteria, i.e. information gain, information gain ratio and Gini index. Simulation results show that if the quantization parameters are set properly, the proposed decision-tree-based scheme can achieve satisfactory performance in terms of average secrecy rate while reducing computational complexity and feedback amount.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2965963
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Physical-layer security,relay selection,machine learning,decision tree,splitting criterion
Journal
8
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao-Wei Wang159659.78
Feng Liu200.34