Author Identifier (ORCID)
Shihao Yan: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4586-1926
Abstract
In this paper, the covert performance of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided Terahertz (THz) communication systems with rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) over the generalized α-μ fading channel is studied, where the discrete phase error and noise power uncertainty are considered. By means of the Gaussian approximation and Gamma distribution, the closed-form outage probability (OP) of the legitimate users is firstly derived. Then, the covert performance of the system is analyzed, and average detection error probability (ADEP) is deduced for the warden, and resultant closed-form ADEP is obtained. By minimizing the ADEP, the optimal detection threshold is derived with closed-form expression. With these results, subject to the constraints of covertness and reliability, the power allocation (PA) coefficients are optimized to minimize the OP of the covert user. Two adaptive PA schemes based on two-dimensional (2D) and one-dimensional (1D) search methods are respectively proposed to achieve the solutions, and resulting lower OP is attained. Simulation results indicate that the theoretical OP and ADEP can agree the corresponding simulations well, and randomizing the noise power of warden can improve the covert performance. Moreover, the warden with the optimized threshold can obtain lower ADEP than that with a fixed threshold, and the system with two PA schemes has a lower OP than that with a fixed PA, especially the scheme based on 1D search has lower complexity while maintaining the superior performance.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
1-1-2025
Publication Title
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Publisher
IEEE
School
School of Science
Funders
Natural Science Foundation of China (62031017, 62471228)
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Yu, X., Zhou, Y., Yan, S., Rui, Y., Dang, X., Yuen, C., & Guizani, M. (2025). Covert performance of STAR-RIS aided THz communication system with RSMA and phase errors. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Advance online publications. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2025.3638299