Secure Wireless Information and Power Transfer Based on Tilt Adaptation in 3-D Massive MIMO Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a secure transmission algorithm exploiting the vertical domain for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a massive multiple-input multiple-output system over Rician fading channels. Each user adopts the power splitting (PS) technique to separate information and energy, which is regarded as a potential eavesdropper (ED) for the intended user. We consider the scenario, where at least one ED has the same angle of departure with the intended user. The base station (BS) applies artificial noise (AN) and deploys 3-D directional antennas to enhance the secure rate and energy transfer by adjusting the antenna tilt adaptively. We first derive the approximate ergodic achievable secrecy rate and harvested power. Based on these approximations, the optimization problem is formulated to minimize the total transmit power with individual secrecy rate and harvested power targets. We propose an iterative algorithm to jointly optimizing the BS antenna tilt, AN covariance, power allocation, and PS ratios. The numerical results verify that the approximate secrecy rate is very close to the actual values and show that the performance of the proposal approaches that of the optimal solutions from the brute-force search and outperforms the 2-D and conventional 3-D schemes, which proves the significant role of tilt adaptation in the secure SWIPT.