Secure Wireless Communication for Correlated Legitimate User and Eavesdropper Channels via Movable-Antenna Enhanced Frequency Diverse Array.

Abstract

Physical-layer (PHY) security is widely used as an effective method for ensuring secure wireless communications. However, when the legitimate user (LU) and the eavesdropper (Eve) are in close proximity, the channel coupling can significantly degrade the secure performance of PHY. Frequency diverse array (FDA) technique addresses channel coupling issues by introducing frequency offsets among array elements. However, FDA's ability to secure communication relies mainly on frequency domain characteristics, lacking the spatial degrees of freedom. The recently proposed movable antenna (MA) technology serves as an effective approach to overcome this limitation. It offers the flexibility to adjust antenna positions dynamically, thereby further decoupling the channels between LU and Eve. In this paper, we propose a novel MA-FDA approach, which offers a comprehensive solution for enhancing PHY security. We aim to maximize the achievable secrecy rate through the joint optimization of all antenna positions at the base station (BS), FDA frequency offsets, and beamformer, subject to the predefined regions for antenna positions, frequency offsets range, and energy constraints. To solve this non-convex optimization problem, which involves highly coupled variables, the alternating optimization (AO) method is employed to cyclically update the parameters, with the projected gradient ascent (PGA) method and block successive upper-bound minimization (BSUM) method being employed to tackle the challenging subproblems. Simulation results demonstrate that the MA-FDA approach can achieve a higher secrecy rate compared to the conventional phased array (PA) or fixed-position antenna (FPA) schemes.