In this paper, we propose a two-way hybrid satellite–terrestrial relay scheme employing Fountain codes (FCs). In the proposed model, a satellite and a ground user exchange data through a group of terrestrial relay stations, in the presence of an eavesdropper. In the first phase, the satellite and the ground user simultaneously transmit their encoded packets to the relay stations. The relay stations then apply a successive interference cancelation (SIC) technique to decode the received packets. To reduce the quality of the eavesdropping links, a cooperative jammer is employed to transmit jamming signals toward the eavesdropper during the first phase. Next, one of the relay stations which can successfully decode the encoded packets from both the satellite and the ground user is selected for data forwarding, by using a partial relay selection method. Then, this selected relay performs an XOR operation on the two encoded packets, and then broadcasts the XOR-ed packet to both the satellite and the user in the second phase. We derive exact closed-form expressions of outage probability (OP), system outage probability (SOP), intercept probability (IP), and system intercept probability (SIP), and realize simulations to validate these expressions. This paper also studies the trade-off between OP (SOP) and IP (SIP), as well as the impact of various system parameters on the performance of the proposed scheme.
Toan et al. (Sun,) studied this question.