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Main Authors: Qsibat, Aseel, Akhleifa, Habiba, Salem, Abdelhamid, Rabie, Khaled, Li, Xingwang, Shongwe, Thokozani, Alawad, Mohamad A., Alkhrijah, Yazeed
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06048
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author Qsibat, Aseel
Akhleifa, Habiba
Salem, Abdelhamid
Rabie, Khaled
Li, Xingwang
Shongwe, Thokozani
Alawad, Mohamad A.
Alkhrijah, Yazeed
author_facet Qsibat, Aseel
Akhleifa, Habiba
Salem, Abdelhamid
Rabie, Khaled
Li, Xingwang
Shongwe, Thokozani
Alawad, Mohamad A.
Alkhrijah, Yazeed
contents This paper investigates the secure communication capabilities of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network supported by a STAR-RIS (simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface) deployed on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in the presence of passive eavesdroppers. The STAR-RIS facilitates concurrent signal reflection and transmission, allowing multiple legitimate users-grouped via NOMA-to be served efficiently, thereby improving spectral utilization. Each user contends with an associated eavesdropper, creating a stringent security scenario. Under Nakagami fading conditions and accounting for phase shift inaccuracies in the STAR-RIS, closed-form expressions for the ergodic secrecy rates of users in both transmission and reflection paths are derived. An optimization framework is then developed to jointly adjust the UAV's positioning and the STAR-RIS power splitting coefficient, aiming to maximize the system's secrecy rate. The proposed approach enhances secure transmission in STAR-RIS-NOMA configurations under realistic hardware constraints and offers valuable guidance for the design of future 6G wireless networks.
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spellingShingle Secure Communication of UAV-mounted STAR-RIS under Phase Shift Errors
Qsibat, Aseel
Akhleifa, Habiba
Salem, Abdelhamid
Rabie, Khaled
Li, Xingwang
Shongwe, Thokozani
Alawad, Mohamad A.
Alkhrijah, Yazeed
Signal Processing
This paper investigates the secure communication capabilities of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network supported by a STAR-RIS (simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface) deployed on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in the presence of passive eavesdroppers. The STAR-RIS facilitates concurrent signal reflection and transmission, allowing multiple legitimate users-grouped via NOMA-to be served efficiently, thereby improving spectral utilization. Each user contends with an associated eavesdropper, creating a stringent security scenario. Under Nakagami fading conditions and accounting for phase shift inaccuracies in the STAR-RIS, closed-form expressions for the ergodic secrecy rates of users in both transmission and reflection paths are derived. An optimization framework is then developed to jointly adjust the UAV's positioning and the STAR-RIS power splitting coefficient, aiming to maximize the system's secrecy rate. The proposed approach enhances secure transmission in STAR-RIS-NOMA configurations under realistic hardware constraints and offers valuable guidance for the design of future 6G wireless networks.
title Secure Communication of UAV-mounted STAR-RIS under Phase Shift Errors
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06048