Secure Cognitive Radio Communication via Intelligent Reflecting Surface

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted spectrum sharing underlay cognitive radio (CR) wiretap channel (WTC) is studied, and we aim at enhancing the secrecy rate of secondary user in this channel subject to total power constraint at secondary transmitter (ST), interference power constraint (IPC) at primary receiver (PR) as well as unit modulus constraint at IRS. Due to extra IPC and eavesdropper (Eve) are considered, all the existing solutions for enhancing secrecy rate of IRS-assisted non-CR WTC as well as enhancing transmission rate in IRS-assisted CR channel without eavesdropper fail in this work. Therefore, we propose new numerical solutions to optimize the secrecy rate of this channel under full primary, secondary users’ channel state information (CSI) and three different cases of Eve’s CSI: full CSI, imperfect CSI with bounded estimation error, and no CSI. To solve the difficult non-convex optimization problem, an efficient alternating optimization (AO) algorithm is proposed to jointly optimize the beamformer at ST and phase shift coefficients at IRS. In particular, when optimizing the phase shift coefficients during each iteration of AO, a Dinkelbach based solution in combination with successive approximation and penalty based solution is proposed under full CSI and a penalty convex-concave procedure solution is proposed under imperfect Eve’s CSI. For no Eve’s CSI case, artificial noise (AN) aided approach is adopted to help enhancing the secrecy rate. Simulation results show that our proposed solutions for the IRS-assisted design greatly enhance the secrecy performance compared with the existing numerical solutions with and without IRS under full and imperfect Eve’s CSI. And positive secrecy rate can be achieved by our proposed AN aided approach given most channel realizations under no Eve’s CSI case so that secure communication also can be guaranteed. All of the proposed AO algorithms are guaranteed to monotonic convergence.

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