Intelligent Surface Assisted Radar Stealth Against Unauthorized ISAC

TL;DR

This paper introduces an intelligent surface-assisted method to enhance radar stealth by disrupting unauthorized sensing in 6G networks, effectively protecting user privacy without compromising communication quality.

Contribution

It presents a novel game-theoretic approach and a closed-form solution for optimizing intelligent surface phase shifts to prevent adversarial sensing.

Findings

Outperforms baseline methods in reducing sensing accuracy

Effectively balances stealth and communication quality

Provides a closed-form optimal solution

Abstract

The integration of radar sensors and communication networks as envisioned for the 6G wireless networks poses significant security risks, e.g., the user position information can be released to an unauthorized dual-functional base station (DFBS). To address this issue, we propose an intelligent surface (IS)-assisted radar stealth technology that prevents adversarial sensing. Specifically, we modify the wireless channels by tuning the phase shifts of IS in order to protect the target user from unauthorized sensing without jeopardizing the wireless communication link. In principle, we wish to maximize the distortion between the estimated angle-of-arrival (AoA) by the DFBS and the ground truth given the minimum signal-to-noise-radio (SNR) constraint for communication. Toward this end, we propose characterizing the problem as a game played by the DFBS and the IS, in which the DFBS aims to maximize a particular utility while the IS aims to minimize the utility. Although the problem is nonconvex, this paper shows that it can be optimally solved in closed form from a geometric perspective. According to the simulations, the proposed closed-form algorithm outperforms the baseline methods significantly in combating unauthorized sensing while limiting the impacts on wireless communications.