Optimal Hovering Height and Power Allocation for UAV-Aided NOMA Covert Communication System

Abstract

In this letter, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided covert communication system in which the UAV provides downlink transmission to the public user and covert user with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In the considered system, the covert performance can be effectively enhanced by the mobility of the UAV and the transmission from UAV to the public user. Aiming at improving the covert signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), we jointly optimize the hovering height and power allocation of UAV and formulate a signomial programming (SP) problem. To tackle the nonconvex optimization, we develop a successive geometric programming approximation (SGPA) algorithm. The optimal hovering height and power allocation are provided with numerical results and the outperformance of our design is verified.