NOMA Aided Secure Transmission for IRS-ISAC

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 23; no. 9; pp. 10911 - 10925
• Main Authors: Li, Dongdong, Yang, Zhutian, Zhao, Nan, Wu, Zhilu, Quek, Tony Q. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Convexity; Integrated sensing and communication; intelligent reflecting surface; Jamming; NOMA; non-orthogonal multiple access; Nonorthogonal multiple access; Optimization; physical layer security; Precoding; Radar; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; Security; Sensors; Target detection; Waveforms; Wireless communication
• ISSN: 1536-1276; 1558-2248
• DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3376976

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), as an emerging technology for 6G, raises a critical security issue that the sensing waveform may expose the private information to suspicious detection targets. In this paper, we design to utilize intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in ISAC to enhance the secure transmission for non-orthogonal multiple access nodes, and establish an additional line-of-sight link for the detection. An IRS-aided secure transmission scheme is proposed to jointly optimize the jamming, the active transmit precoding at the base station and the passive phase reflecting at the IRS to maximize the sum secrecy rate, subject to the echo signal requirement towards the target. To address the non-convexity of the proposed problem, it is decomposed into two subproblems, enabling the optimization of the transmit jamming and precoding vectors and the phase reflecting matrix, respectively. Then, with the help of successive convex approximation, these subproblems are derived to be convex, and an alternating optimization algorithm is introduced to address the original problem, which is guaranteed to converge. Simulations verify that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the benchmarks, and can guarantee the sensing functioning while greatly enhancing the communication security.