This work investigates the security and reliability analysis for a novel satellite-terrestrial (SatTer) network. Specifically, a satellite attempts to transmit confidential information to a ground user (GU) via the support of multiple relay nodes in the presence of an eavesdropper that tries to overhear the information. A friendly jammer is deployed to improve the secure transmission between the satellite and the relays. Furthermore, satellite-to-relay generalized Rician fading channels and imperfect channel state information (CSI) are deployed to examine a general system model. In this context, the closed-formed expressions for the outage probability (OP) and intercept probability (IP) are derived corresponding to an amplify-and-forward (AF)-based relaying scheme, which is challenging and has not been studied before. Finally, the exactness of the mathematical analyses is validated through Monte Carlo simulations. Furthermore, the effects of various key parameters (e.g., channel estimation errors, satellite's transmit power, relay's transmit power, number of relays, and fading severity parameter) are examined.Index Terms-Cooperative relay, imperfect CSI, physical layer security, satellite communications, shadowed Rician channel
I. INTRODUCTIONRecently, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been spread worldwide due to its various applications such as smart cities, smart farming, wearable devices, healthcare, and smart communications [1]-[3]. Nevertheless, the explosive growth of the number of IoT devices (IoTDs) has brought new challenges to the traditional cellular networks due to its Manuscript