Secure Transmission for Dual-Function IRS-Assisted Cognitive Radio NOMA Networks

In this article, a dual-function intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cognitive radio (CR) nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks for secure transmission is studied. Considering the scenario of both internal and multiple external Eves in the system, our goal is to maximize the sum achievable secrecy rate through jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming of cognitive base station (CBS), the mode selection of each IRS element and the phase vector of IRS, while both the passive dual-function IRS and active dual-function IRS are investigated. For passive dual-function IRS setup, we decouple the proposed nonconvex optimization problem into two subproblems, the transmit beamforming subproblem and the phase vector subproblem. For transmit beamforming subproblem, we first use arithmetic geometric mean (AGM) inequality and linear matrix inequality (LMI) to deal with the nonconvex fraction form in the objective function and in constraints. Then, successive convex approximation (SCA) is applied to iteratively solve it. For the phase vector subproblem, we utilize the penalty function to handle the rank one constraint and the binary constraint. By alternately optimizing these two subproblems, we obtain a local optimal solution. Then, we extend the proposed algorithm to the secure transmission scheme with active dual-function IRS. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme with the help of a dual-function IRS effectively enhances the security of the CR-NOMA network compared to other benchmark schemes. Moreover, when the maximum transmitting power P-max >= 15 dBm, the proposed active IRS scheme is superior to the proposed passive IRS scheme.