Author Identifier (ORCID)
Shihao Yan: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4586-1926
Abstract
Next-generation wireless network should accomplish integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) capabilities. This paper proposes a novel covert transmission scheme based on active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-ISCC framework, where the multi-functional UAV realizes simultaneous target sensing and uplink (UL) covert communication, as well as performing edge computing (EC) for users. To maximize the minimum covert transmission rate (CTR) among all UL users, UAV transmit beamforming and trajectory, RIS weights, power allocation and signal processing in a FD UL transmission system are jointly devised. To tackle the intractable non-convex problem, we leverage second order cone programming (SOCP), penalty-dual-decomposition (PDD) and successive convex approximation (SCA), and propose a security solution that efficiently optimizes all variables by employing convex optimization approaches. Simulation results show that by incorporating the active RIS and UAV techniques into the optimization design, the covert transmission performance of ISCC systems are improved while ensuring a certain level of target sensing and EC 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
National Natural Science Foundation of China (U22A2002) / Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund (ZDYF2024GXJS292) / Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Technology, Hainan University (XTCX2022XXC07) / Scientific Research Fund Project of Hainan University (KYQD(ZR)-21008) / Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (625RC712) / National Key Research and Development Program of China (2023YFF0612900)
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Zhang, Q., Gao, W., Liu, C., Yao, Y., Yan, S., Shu, F., & Jin, S. (2025). Covert transmission for active RIS-aided full-duplex UAV integrated sensing, communication, and computation systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2025.3637785