RIS-Assisted Energy-Efficient Communication and Key Generation with Reinforcement Learning
摘要
With the advancement of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, wireless endogenous security has become a hot topic. To address this, we can leverage Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) to design integrated communications and security (JCAS) paradigms, where the dual functions of communication and security mutually benefit each other. In this paper, we consider an ICAS system that can simultaneously transmit data and generate secret keys. Specifically, the optimization problem aims to maximize energy efficiency concerning both the data transmission rate and the key generation rate by jointly optimizing the phase-shifts of the RJS and its ON/OFF state. Given the uncertainty of wireless environments, we propose a model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm to determine the optimal RIS configuration strategy. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly enhances the energy efficiency of the ICAS system and outperforms existing benchmark methods.