Secrecy Rate Maximization with Artificial Noise for Pinching-Antenna Systems

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Autori principali: Papanikolaou, Pigi P., Bozanis, Dimitrios, Tegos, Sotiris A., Diamantoulakis, Panagiotis D., Karagiannidis, George K.
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author Papanikolaou, Pigi P.
Bozanis, Dimitrios
Tegos, Sotiris A.
Diamantoulakis, Panagiotis D.
Karagiannidis, George K.
author_facet Papanikolaou, Pigi P.
Bozanis, Dimitrios
Tegos, Sotiris A.
Diamantoulakis, Panagiotis D.
Karagiannidis, George K.
contents Security is emerging as a critical performance metric for next-generation wireless networks, but conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby eavesdroppers due to their fixed-antenna configurations. Pinching-antenna systems (PAS) offer a promising alternative, leveraging reconfigurable pinching antennas (PAs) positioned along low-loss dielectric waveguides to enhance channel conditions and dynamically mitigate security threats. In this paper, we propose an artificial noise (AN)-based beamforming scheme for downlink transmissions in PAS, with the goal of maximizing the secrecy rate. A closed-form solution is derived for the single-waveguide scenario, while an alternating optimization approach addresses more complex multiple waveguide setups. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms conventional MIMO and existing PAS security schemes.
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spellingShingle Secrecy Rate Maximization with Artificial Noise for Pinching-Antenna Systems
Papanikolaou, Pigi P.
Bozanis, Dimitrios
Tegos, Sotiris A.
Diamantoulakis, Panagiotis D.
Karagiannidis, George K.
Signal Processing
Security is emerging as a critical performance metric for next-generation wireless networks, but conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby eavesdroppers due to their fixed-antenna configurations. Pinching-antenna systems (PAS) offer a promising alternative, leveraging reconfigurable pinching antennas (PAs) positioned along low-loss dielectric waveguides to enhance channel conditions and dynamically mitigate security threats. In this paper, we propose an artificial noise (AN)-based beamforming scheme for downlink transmissions in PAS, with the goal of maximizing the secrecy rate. A closed-form solution is derived for the single-waveguide scenario, while an alternating optimization approach addresses more complex multiple waveguide setups. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms conventional MIMO and existing PAS security schemes.
title Secrecy Rate Maximization with Artificial Noise for Pinching-Antenna Systems
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10656