Secure MIMO communication in energy harvesting-assisted NOMA Cognitive Radio Network with jamming under hardware impairment

Energy harvesting (EH)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) cognitive radio (CR) networks allow simultaneous transmission of multiple secondary user signals on primary frequency bands with harvested energy, enhancing spectral, spectrum utilization, and energy efficiencies. Although multiple antennas are used for efficient energy transfer and signal transceiving, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication in these networks is facing reliability/security performance degradation due to nonlinear EH, hardware impairment (HWi), and wire-tapping. The paper aims to numerically evaluate the security and reliability of MIMO communication in EH-assisted NOMA CR networks with jamming (MehNOwJ) under such effects. The results indicate that MehNOwJ prevents full outage and achieves optimum performance with proper parameter selection of preset spectral efficiency, power saturation threshold, EH duration, number of antennas of jammer. In addition, the performance improves with an accreting quantity of antennas but experiences saturation. Moreover, MehNOwJ drastically outperforms alternative approaches (MIMO communication in EH-assisted orthogonal multiple access CR network with jamming and MIMO communication in EH-assisted NOMA CR network without jamming), offering insights into the benefits of combining NOMA and jamming techniques.