This paper investigates the security-delay trade-off of the buffer-aided relay selection scheme in a two-hop wireless system, which consists of a source-destination pair, one eavesdropper, and multiple relays each having a finite buffer. To evaluate the security and delay performances of the system, we derive analytical expressions for the end-to-end (E2E) secure transmission probability (STP) and the expected E2E delay under both perfect and partial eavesdropper channel state information (CSI) cases. These analytical expressions help us to explore the inherent trade-off between the security and delay performances of the concerned system. In particular, the results in this paper indicate that: 1) the maximum E2E STP increases as the constraint on the expected E2E delay becomes less strict, and such trend is more sensitive to the variation of the number of relays than that of the relay buffer size; 2) on the other hand, the minimum expected E2E delay tends to decrease when a less strict constraint on E2E STP is imposed, and this trend is more sensitive to the variation of the relay buffer size than that of the number of relays.

Molecular communication (MC), which allows nanomachines to communicate with each other by using chemical molecules, is considered to be a promising method for communications in liquid environment. Available works on MC mainly focus on modulation and signal detection schemes for MC systems with fixed nanomachines, i.e., fixed molecular communication (FMC) systems. However, the more complex systems with mobile nanomachines (i.e., mobile molecular communication (MMC) systems) have been largely unexplored. This paper considers a MMC system with a fixed transmitter and a mobile receiver communicating over diffusive-drift channels of a limited boundary. We first propose a new modulation scheme to address the issue of misalignment in the signal detection of MMC systems by adopting three types of molecules in the signal modulation and modulating the transmitted signals into blocks with equal length to avoid the transferring of a signal error in the current block on the signal detection in other blocks. We then propose a new signal detection scheme of the MMC systems by calculating the distance between the transmitter and the receiver based on a distance prediction method and detecting signals at the receiver based on the decided adaptive concentration threshold in each time interval. To verify the efficiency of our proposed scheme, we then conducted extensive simulations by the Monte Carlo simulation, and comparisons are also made among our proposed schemes, a well-known fixed threshold signal detection scheme, the CATD scheme, the PAD scheme, and a low complexity signal detection scheme for MMC systems in terms of the BER (bit error rate). Results show that our proposed schemes can outperform these schemes regarding the BER.

Establishing a secret and reliable wireless communication is a challenging task that is of paramount importance. In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security of a legitimate transmission link between a user that assists an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) in detecting eavesdropping and jamming attacks in the presence of an adversary that is capable of conducting an eavesdropping or a jamming attack. The user is being faced by a challenge of whether to transmit, thus becoming vulnerable to an eavesdropping or a jamming attack, or to keep silent and consequently his/her transmission will be delayed. The adversary is also facing a challenge of whether to conduct an eavesdropping or a jamming attack that will not get him/her to be detected. We model the interactions between the user and the adversary as a two-state stochastic game. Explicit solutions characterize some properties while highlighting some interesting strategies that are being embraced by the user and the adversary. Results show that our proposed system outperform current systems in terms of communication secrecy.