Aiming at the issue of imperfect channel state information (CSI) caused by the passive nature of eavesdroppers, this paper introduces an external friendly jammer to degrade the quality of the eavesdropper channels and proposes a robust physical layer security optimization method for a downlink communication system with dual-sided single user and multiple eavesdroppers, assisted by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) and cooperative jamming. The objective is to maximize the system’s sum secrecy rate (SSR) under the worst-case scenario, by jointly designing the beamforming vectors at the base station (BS) and the jammer, as well as the transmit/reflection coefficient matrix of the STAR-RIS. Since the formulated optimization problem is a non-convex problem with multiple coupled variables, an efficient iterative algorithm is developed by leveraging alternative optimization (AO), semidefinite relaxation (SDR), and the S-procedure to obtain a suboptimal solution. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed robust scheme significantly enhances the secrecy performance of the system compared with baseline schemes.
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基金资助
赣鄱俊才支持计划——主要学科学术和技术带头人培养计划资助项目(20232BCJ22005)
Gan-Po Talent Support Program—Funding Project for the Training of Academic and Technical Leaders in Major Disciplines(20232BCJ22005)
国家自然科学基金资助项目(62341120)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(62341120)
江西省自然科学基金资助项目(20242BAB26016)
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province(20242BAB26016)