Movable Antenna Empowered PLS With Eve’s Location Uncertainty: Joint Optimization of Beamforming and Antenna Positions
Zhiyong Feng, Yujia Zhao, Kan Yu +1 more
Physical layer security (PLS) technology based on the fixed-position antenna (FPA) has attracted widespread attention. Due to the fixed feature of the antennas, current FPA-based PLS schemes cannot fully utilize the spatial degree of freedom, and thus a weaken secure gain in the desired/undesired direction may exist. Different from the concept of FPA, movable antenna (MA) is a novel technology that reconfigures the wireless channels and enhances the corresponding capacity through the flexible movement of antennas on a minor scale. MA-empowered PLS enjoys huge potential and deserves further investigation. In this paper, for the first time, we investigate the secrecy performance of MA-enabled PLS system where a MA-based base station (BS) transmits the confidential information to multiple single-antenna Bobs, in the presence of the single-antenna eavesdropper (Eve) with no location information, by jointly optimizing the beamforming and antenna positions at the BS. Furthermore, the non-convex optimization problem can be solved via the methods of projected gradient ascent and alternating optimization. Also, and simulated annealing is adopted to find a high-quality feasible solution. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and correctness of the proposed method. In particular, MA-enabled PLS scheme can significantly enhance the secrecy rate compared to the conventional FPA-based ones for different settings of key system parameters.
IEEE Transactions on Communications•Sep 10, 2025•9 citations