TY - JOUR
T1 - Channel-Aware Conditional Diffusion Model for Secure MU-MISO Communications
AU - Hui, Tong
AU - Tang, Xiao
AU - Wang, Yichen
AU - Du, Qinghe
AU - Niyato, Dusit
AU - Han, Zhu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1967-2012 IEEE.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - While information security is a fundamental requirement for wireless communications, conventional optimization-based approaches often struggle with real-time implementation, and deep models, typically discriminative in nature, may lack the ability to cope with unforeseen scenarios. To address this challenge, this paper investigates the design of legitimate beamforming and artificial noise (AN) to achieve physical layer security by exploiting the conditional diffusion model. Specifically, we reformulate the security optimization as a conditional generative process, using a diffusion model to learn the inherent distribution of near-optimal joint beamforming and AN strategies. We employ a U-Net architecture with cross-attention to integrate channel state information, as the basis for the generative process. Moreover, we fine-tune the trained model using an objective incorporating the sum secrecy rate such that the security performance is further enhanced. Finally, simulation results validate the learning process convergence and demonstrate that the proposed generative method achieves superior secrecy performance across various scenarios as compared with the baselines.
AB - While information security is a fundamental requirement for wireless communications, conventional optimization-based approaches often struggle with real-time implementation, and deep models, typically discriminative in nature, may lack the ability to cope with unforeseen scenarios. To address this challenge, this paper investigates the design of legitimate beamforming and artificial noise (AN) to achieve physical layer security by exploiting the conditional diffusion model. Specifically, we reformulate the security optimization as a conditional generative process, using a diffusion model to learn the inherent distribution of near-optimal joint beamforming and AN strategies. We employ a U-Net architecture with cross-attention to integrate channel state information, as the basis for the generative process. Moreover, we fine-tune the trained model using an objective incorporating the sum secrecy rate such that the security performance is further enhanced. Finally, simulation results validate the learning process convergence and demonstrate that the proposed generative method achieves superior secrecy performance across various scenarios as compared with the baselines.
KW - artificial noise
KW - beamforming
KW - diffusion model
KW - Physical layer security
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105030251520
U2 - 10.1109/TVT.2026.3662745
DO - 10.1109/TVT.2026.3662745
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:105030251520
SN - 0018-9545
JO - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
JF - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
ER -