AN-Aided Secure Beamforming for ELAA-SWIPT in Mixed Near-and Far-Field

• Published in: IEEE wireless communications letters p. 1
• Main Authors: Yi, Yaqian, Zhang, Guangchi, Cui, Miao, You, Changsheng, Wu, Qingqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2025
• Subjects: Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; artificial noise; Energy harvesting; extremely large-scale antenna array; mixed near-and far-field; Noise measurement; Radio frequency; Receivers; secure beamforming; Security; Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer; Vectors; Wireless communication
• ISSN: 2162-2337; 2162-2345
• DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3605106

This letter investigates secure hybrid beamforming (HB) design for an extremely large-scale antenna array-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system operating in a mixed near-field (NF)/far-field (FF) environment. A base station (BS) employs HB to transmit information and artificial noise (AN) signals simultaneously to multiple FF information receivers (IRs) and NF energy receivers (ERs). The objective is to maximize the weighted sum secrecy rate for the IRs, considering both Type-I (unable to cancel AN) and Type-II (capable of canceling AN) IRs, subject to minimum energy harvesting requirements at the ERs and a BS transmit power constraint. We formulate optimization problems for both IR types and develop an efficient iterative algorithm based on successive convex approximation. Simulation results validate the proposed scheme and provide crucial insights into the security performance of mixed-field SWIPT systems, highlighting the influence of visibility regions and angular user separation.