This paper investigates the utilization of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) in supporting joint physical layer security (PLS) and covert communications (CCs) in a multi-antenna millimeter-wave (mmWave) system. Specifically, analytical derivations are performed to obtain the closed-form expression of the warden’s minimum detection error probability (DEP) considering the practical assumption. Subsequently, an optimization problem is formulated with the aim of maximizing the average sum of the covert rate and the secure rate while ensuring the covert requirement and quality of service (QoS) for legal users by jointly optimizing the active and passive beamformers. Due to the strong coupling among variables, an iterative algorithm based on the alternating strategy and the semi-definite relaxation (SDR) method is proposed to solve the non-convex optimization problem. Simulation results indicate the superiority of STAR-RIS in simultaneously implementing PLS and CCs.


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    Title :

    STAR-RIS-Assisted Joint Physical Layer Security and Covert Communications


    Contributors:
    Xiao, Han (author) / Hu, Xiaoyan (author) / Li, Ang (author) / Wang, Wenjie (author) / Su, Zhou (author) / Wong, Kai-Kit (author) / Yang, Kun (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-10-10


    Size :

    2556461 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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