Intelligent Reflect Surface Aided Secure Transmission in MIMO Channel With SWIPT

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 8; pp. 192132 - 192140
• Main Authors: Hehao, Niu, Ni, Lei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Communication system security; complex circle manifold; Covariance; Covariance matrices; Erbium; Intelligent reflecting surface; majorization-minimization; MIMO communication; Optimization; Power transfer; Precoding; Security; unit modulus reflect coefficient; Wireless communication
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032759

This paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) secure simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system aided by the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), where the transmitter (T), the information receiver (IR) and energy receiver (ER) are all equipped with multiple antennas. Assuming that the ER may be potential eavesdropper (Eve), we aim to maximize the secrecy rate via jointly designing the precoding matrix, the artificial noise (AN) covariance, and the phase shift matrix, subject to the harvested energy and unit modulus reflect coefficient (RC) constraints. The formulated secrecy rate maximization (SRM) problem is non-convex with multiple coupled variables. To tackle it, an inexact block coordinate descent (IBCD) method is proposed, where the unit modulus constraint is handled by the penalty majorization-minimization (MM) and the complex circle manifold (CCM) methods. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness of IRS in enhancing the security.