Secure Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Maritime Cognitive Radio Network: Power Allocation and UAV’s Location Optimization

Abstract

This paper investigates the secure rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) cooperation for the maritime cognitive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network. Specifically, we first take into account the primary privacy information and the secondary maritime UAV’s quality of service. Then, we formulate an optimization problem to maximize UAV’s transmission rate according to the RSMA decoding principle and primary information security requirements. To solve this non-convex problem, we design a CPFS algorithm to allocate the transmit power and adjust the UAV’s location. In addition, the worst case is analyzed, which is the lower-bound secondary transmission rate. Finally, simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme improves the UAV’s transmission rate compared with the traditional schemes.

Keywords

• maritime cognitive networks
• rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)
• secondary transmission rate
• unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)