IRS辅助的通感一体化系统的安全通信
Secure Transmission for IRS Aided Integrated Sensing and Communication System
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摘要: 本文研究了智能反射面(Intelligent Reflecting Surface, IRS)辅助通感一体化(Integrated Sensing and Communication, ISAC)系统的安全通信。其中基站希望在IRS的帮助下,在窃听用户存在的情况下向合法用户发送消息并同时检测可信目标。本文的目的是联合设计基站的发射波束形成向量和IRS的反射波束形成向量,以最大化保密速率,同时满足检测目标所需信噪比(Signal-to-Noise Ratio, SNR)阈值、发射功率约束和IRS反射系数的单位模约束。为了解决这个复杂的非凸问题,本文提出了一种基于半正定松弛(Semidefinite Relaxation, SDR)和交替优化的有效算法来解决该问题。仿真结果表明,该系统既可以提供有效的目标检测,保证预定义的SNR阈值,也可以提供安全的通信。同时证实了与没有IRS的方案相比,IRS辅助实现了更高的保密速率,也表明了在ISAC系统中部署IRS的优势和所提出算法的有效性。Abstract: This paper investigated the secure communication for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) system assisted by Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS). With the aid of the IRS, the base station desired to deliver messages to a legitimate user and detect a trusted target in the presence of an eavesdropping user. We aimed to jointly design the transmit beamforming vector of the base station and the reflection beamforming vector of IRS to maximize the secrecy rate, while satisfying the required signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold for the sensing target, transmit power constraint and the unit-modulus constraint of the IRS reflection coefficient. However, the problem was non-convex due to the non-convex of the secrecy rate function. To tackle this issue, we proposed an effective algorithm based on the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and an alternation optimization approach to solve this problem. The simulation results show that the system can not only provide effective target detection and ensure predefined SNR threshold, but also provide secure communication. At the same time, it proves that IRS can help to achieve higher secrecy rate compared with the scheme without IRS, which shows the advantages of deploying IRS in the Integrated Sensing and Communication system and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.