Secure Beamforming Design for IRS-ISAC Systems with a Hardware-Efficient Hybrid Beamforming Architecture
Weijie Xiong, Zhenglan Zhao, Jingran Lin, Zhiling Xiao, and Qiang Li

TL;DR
This paper introduces a hybrid beamforming approach for IRS-assisted ISAC systems that enhances secure communication and target detection while reducing hardware complexity.
Contribution
It proposes a novel joint optimization method using PDD to maximize secrecy gap in IRS-ISAC systems with hardware-efficient hybrid beamforming.
Findings
Proposed algorithm converges to a stationary point.
System outperforms traditional architectures in balancing performance and hardware costs.
Effective in enhancing security and sensing capabilities.
Abstract
In this paper, we employ a hardware-efficient hybrid beamforming (HB) architecture to achieve balanced performance in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a scenario where a multi-antenna, dual-function base station (BS) performs secure beamforming for a multi-antenna legitimate receiver while simultaneously detecting potential targets. Our objective is to maximize the communication secrecy gap by jointly optimizing the analog and digital beamformers, IRS reflection coefficients, and radar scaling factor, subject to constraints on beampattern similarity, total transmit power budget, and the constant modulus of both the analog beamformer and IRS reflection coefficients. This secrecy gap maximization problem is generally non-convex. To address this, we incorporate the exterior penalty method by adding the radar…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Wireless Communication Technologies · Wireless Communication Security Techniques · Radar Systems and Signal Processing
