Secrecy Rate Maximization for 6G Cognitive Satellite-UAV Networks

To cover remote areas where terrestrial cellular networks may not be available,non-terrestrial infrastructures such as satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)can be utilized in the upcoming sixth-generation(6G)era.Considering the spectrum scarcity problem,satellites and UAVs need to share the spectrum to save costs,leading to a cognitive satellite-UAV network.Due to the openness of both satellite links and UAV links,communication security has become a major concern in cognitive satelliteUAV networks.In this paper,we safeguard a cognitive satellite-UAV network from a physical layer security(PLS)perspective.Using only the slowlyvarying large-scale channel state information(CSI),we jointly allocate the transmission power and subchannels to maximize the secrecy sum rate of UAV users.The optimization problem is a mixed integer nonlinear programming(MINLP)problem with coupling constraints.We propose a heuristic algorithm which relaxes the coupling constraints by the penalty method and obtains a sub-optimal low-complexity solution by utilizing random matrix theory,the max-min optimization tool,and the bipartite graph matching algorithm.The simulation results corroborate the superiority of our proposed scheme.

Physical Layer Security for UAV Communications:A Comprehensive Survey

Due to its high mobility and flexible deployment,unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)is drawing unprecedented interest in both military and civil applications to enable agile and ubiquitous connectivity.Mainly operating in an open environment,UAV communications benefit from dominant line-of-sight links;however,this on the other hand renders the communications more vulnerable to malicious attacks.Recently,physical layer security(PLS)has been introduced to UAV systems as an important complement to the conventional cryptography-based approaches.In this paper,a comprehensive survey on the current achievements of UAV-PLS is conducted.We first introduce the basic concepts including typical static/-mobile UAV deployment scenarios,the unique air-toground channel and aerial nodes distribution models,as well as various roles that a UAV may act when PLS is concerned.Then,we start by reviewing the secrecy performance analysis and enhancing techniques for statically deployed UAV systems,and extend the discussion to the more general scenario where the UAVs’mobility is further exploited.For both cases,respectively,we summarize the commonly adopted methodologies,then describe important works in the litera ture in detail.Finally,potential research directions and challenges are discussed to provide an outlook for future works in the area of UAV-PLS.