Low-Altitude UAV-Carried Movable Antenna for Joint Wireless Power Transfer and Covert Communications

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Chuang, Sun, Geng, Li, Jiahui, Wang, Jiacheng, Wu, Qingqing, Niyato, Dusit, Mao, Shiwen, Quek, Tony Q. S.
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author Zhang, Chuang
Sun, Geng
Li, Jiahui
Wang, Jiacheng
Wu, Qingqing
Niyato, Dusit
Mao, Shiwen
Quek, Tony Q. S.
author_facet Zhang, Chuang
Sun, Geng
Li, Jiahui
Wang, Jiacheng
Wu, Qingqing
Niyato, Dusit
Mao, Shiwen
Quek, Tony Q. S.
contents The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) employed with wireless power transfer (WPT) capabilities offer a promising solution, the line-of-sight channels that facilitate efficient energy delivery also expose sensitive operational data to adversaries. This paper proposes a novel low-altitude UAV-carried movable antenna-enhanced transmission system joint WPT and covert communications, which simultaneously performs energy supplements to IoT nodes and establishes transmission links with a covert user by leveraging wireless energy signals as a natural cover. Then, we formulate a multi-objective optimization problem that jointly maximizes the total harvested energy of IoT nodes and sum achievable rate of the covert user, while minimizing the propulsion energy consumption of the low-altitude UAV. To address the non-convex and temporally coupled optimization problem, we propose a mixture-of-experts-augmented soft actor-critic (MoE-SAC) algorithm that employs a sparse Top-K gated mixture-of-shallow-experts architecture to represent multimodal policy distributions arising from the conflicting optimization objectives. We also incorporate an action projection module that explicitly enforces per-time-slot power budget constraints and antenna position constraints. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly outperforms some baseline approaches and other state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms.
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spellingShingle Low-Altitude UAV-Carried Movable Antenna for Joint Wireless Power Transfer and Covert Communications
Zhang, Chuang
Sun, Geng
Li, Jiahui
Wang, Jiacheng
Wu, Qingqing
Niyato, Dusit
Mao, Shiwen
Quek, Tony Q. S.
Networking and Internet Architecture
Signal Processing
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) employed with wireless power transfer (WPT) capabilities offer a promising solution, the line-of-sight channels that facilitate efficient energy delivery also expose sensitive operational data to adversaries. This paper proposes a novel low-altitude UAV-carried movable antenna-enhanced transmission system joint WPT and covert communications, which simultaneously performs energy supplements to IoT nodes and establishes transmission links with a covert user by leveraging wireless energy signals as a natural cover. Then, we formulate a multi-objective optimization problem that jointly maximizes the total harvested energy of IoT nodes and sum achievable rate of the covert user, while minimizing the propulsion energy consumption of the low-altitude UAV. To address the non-convex and temporally coupled optimization problem, we propose a mixture-of-experts-augmented soft actor-critic (MoE-SAC) algorithm that employs a sparse Top-K gated mixture-of-shallow-experts architecture to represent multimodal policy distributions arising from the conflicting optimization objectives. We also incorporate an action projection module that explicitly enforces per-time-slot power budget constraints and antenna position constraints. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly outperforms some baseline approaches and other state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms.
title Low-Altitude UAV-Carried Movable Antenna for Joint Wireless Power Transfer and Covert Communications
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26628