Movable-Element STARS-Aided Secure Communications

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Jingjing, Xu, Qian, Cai, Kaiquan, Zhu, Yanbo, Mu, Xidong, Liu, Yuanwei
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author Zhao, Jingjing
Xu, Qian
Cai, Kaiquan
Zhu, Yanbo
Mu, Xidong
Liu, Yuanwei
author_facet Zhao, Jingjing
Xu, Qian
Cai, Kaiquan
Zhu, Yanbo
Mu, Xidong
Liu, Yuanwei
contents A novel movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-aided secure communication system is investigated. Against the full-space eavesdropping, MEs are deployed at the STARS for enhancing the physical layer security by exploiting higher spatial degrees of freedom. Specifically, a sum secrecy rate maximization problem is formulated, which jointly optimizes the passive beamforming and the MEs positions at the ME-STARS, as well as the active beamforming at the base station. To solve the resultant non-convex optimization problem involving highly-coupled variables, an alternating optimization-based iterative algorithm is developed, decomposing the original problem into three subproblems. In particular, for the MEs position optimization subproblem, a gradient ascent algorithm is employed to iteratively refine the MEs' locations within the confined region. Moreover, the the active and passive beamforming subproblems are solved by employing successive convex approximation. Numerical results unveil that: 1) ME-STARS significantly improves the secrecy performance compared to the conventional STARS with fixed-position elements; and 2) The secrecy rate achieved by the ME-STARS gets saturated within limited movable region size.
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spellingShingle Movable-Element STARS-Aided Secure Communications
Zhao, Jingjing
Xu, Qian
Cai, Kaiquan
Zhu, Yanbo
Mu, Xidong
Liu, Yuanwei
Signal Processing
A novel movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-aided secure communication system is investigated. Against the full-space eavesdropping, MEs are deployed at the STARS for enhancing the physical layer security by exploiting higher spatial degrees of freedom. Specifically, a sum secrecy rate maximization problem is formulated, which jointly optimizes the passive beamforming and the MEs positions at the ME-STARS, as well as the active beamforming at the base station. To solve the resultant non-convex optimization problem involving highly-coupled variables, an alternating optimization-based iterative algorithm is developed, decomposing the original problem into three subproblems. In particular, for the MEs position optimization subproblem, a gradient ascent algorithm is employed to iteratively refine the MEs' locations within the confined region. Moreover, the the active and passive beamforming subproblems are solved by employing successive convex approximation. Numerical results unveil that: 1) ME-STARS significantly improves the secrecy performance compared to the conventional STARS with fixed-position elements; and 2) The secrecy rate achieved by the ME-STARS gets saturated within limited movable region size.
title Movable-Element STARS-Aided Secure Communications
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14804