In this paper, we evaluate the secrecy performance of multi-hop cognitive wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the secondary network, a source transmits its data to a destination via the multi-hop relaying model using the transmit antenna selection (TAS)/selection combining (SC) technique at each hop, in the presence of an eavesdropper who wants to receive the data illegally. The secondary transmitters, including the source and intermediate relays, have to harvest energy from radio-frequency signals of a power beacon for transmitting the source data. Moreover, their transmit power must be adjusted to satisfy the quality of service (QoS) of the primary network. Under the joint impact of hardware imperfection and interference constraint, expressions for the transmit power for the secondary transmitters are derived. We also derive exact and asymptotic expressions of secrecy outage probability (SOP) and probability of non-zero secrecy capacity (PNSC) for the proposed protocol over Rayleigh fading channel. The derivations are then verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

Department of Telecommunications Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering HCMC University of Technology and Education Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

Faculty of Electronics Technology Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

VSB Technical University of Ostrava 17 listopadu 15 2172 708 33 Ostrava Poruba Czech Republic

Wireless Communications Research Group Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Ton Duc Thang University Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

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