Secure Communication in Multifunctional Active Intelligent Reflection Surface-assisted Systems

Conference: WSA & SCC 2023 - 26th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas and 13th Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding
02/27/2023 at Braunschweig, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 308: WSA & SCC 2023

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Hu, Shaokang; Liu, Chang; Ng, Derrick Wing Kwan; Yuan, Jinhong (School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Abstract:
In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously reflect and amplify the incident signals and emit artificial noise to combat potential wiretapping. We minimize the total system power consumption by designing the phase, amplitude, and IRS mode selection of the active IRS elements, as well as the precoder and artificial noise vector of the base station (BS). The design is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem guaranteeing communication security. To tackle the problem, this paper proposes an iterative alternating algorithm to obtain an effective sub-optimal solution. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme offers superior secure performance over all the considered baseline schemes, especially when the number of eavesdropper antennas is more than that of the BS.