JOURNAL ARTICLE

ARIS for Safeguarding MISO Wireless Communications: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Abstract

This paper discusses the problem of securing the transmissions of a ground user against aerial eavesdropping attacks. We propose and optimize the deployment of an aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS) mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The focus is on maximizing the average secrecy rate of the cellular multi-user downlink by jointly optimizing the position and phase shifts of the ARIS. The joint optimization problem is non-convex; therefore we propose an artificial intelligence algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning to solve it. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed ARIS can effectively safeguard legitimate transmissions in the presence of an aerial eavesdropper.

Keywords:
Eavesdropping Reinforcement learning Computer science Software deployment Telecommunications link Wireless Focus (optics) Secrecy Distributed computing Computer network Real-time computing Artificial intelligence Computer security Telecommunications

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Topics

Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
UAV Applications and Optimization
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Aerospace Engineering
Wireless Communication Security Techniques
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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