Secrecy outage analysis for underlay cognitive radio networks over correlated channels

This paper investigates the secrecy outage performance of underlay cognitive radio networks, in which a source in a secondary system transmits its confidential information to a legitimate destination in the presence of an eavesdropper. Specifically, the main(the source-to-destination) and eavesdropping(the sourceto-eavesdropper) channels are assumed to be correlated. Moreover, it is also assumed that the main channel and the channel from the source to the primary user’s receiver are correlated. Tight closed-form analytical expression for secrecy outage probability and the closed-form analytical expression for the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity are derived and validated by simulation results when the interference temperature limit is comparably large.