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Optimal power allocation for secure directional modulation networks with a full-duplex UAV user

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This paper makes an investigation of a secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided communication network based on directional modulation (DM). In this network, ground base station (GBS) acts as a control center to transmit confidential message and artificial noise (AN). The UAV user, moving along a linear flight trajectory, is intended to receive the useful information from GBS. At the same time, it also sends AN signals to further interference eavesdropper’s channel. Aiming at maximizing secrecy rate during the UAV flight process, a joint optimization problem is formulated with respect to power allocation (PA) factors, beamforming vector and AN projection matrices. For simplicity, maximum rate transmission, nullspace projection and the leakage-based method are applied to form the transmit beamforming vector, AN projection matrix at GBS, and AN projection vector at UAV user, respectively. Following this, the optimization problem reduces to a bivariate optimization programme with two PA factors. An alternating iterative algorithm (AIA) is proposed to optimize the two PA factors. Simulation results demonstrate that, compared to the half-duplex (HD) mode, the proposed strategy for full-duplex (FD) mode achieves a higher secrecy rate (SR) and outperforms the FD mode with fixed PA strategy.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61771244, 61501238, 61702258, 61472190, 61801453, 61271230), in part by Open Research Fund of National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation (Grant No. 201500013), in part by Jiangsu Provincial Science Foundation (Grant No. BK20150786), in part by Specially Appointed Professor Program in Jiangsu Province, 2015, in part by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 30916011205), and in part by Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China (Grant Nos. 2017D04, 2013D02).

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  1. School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Zaoyu Lu, Linlin Sun, Xiaobo Zhou, Jin Wang, Jinhui Lu & Feng Shu

  2. Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute, Beijing, 100854, China

    Shuo Zhang, Jinyong Lin & Wenlong Cai

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Lu, Z., Sun, L., Zhang, S. et al. Optimal power allocation for secure directional modulation networks with a full-duplex UAV user. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 80304 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-019-9928-5

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