Multi-objective robust resource allocation for secure communication in full-duplex MIMO systems

Abstract

In this paper, we study robust resource allocation for the multi-user full-duplex (FD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. Particularly, we aim at minimizing uplink (UL) transmit power and downlink (DL) transmit power simultaneously while guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) requirements regarding secure UL and DL communication, under the consideration of the imperfect channel state information (CSI) of the wiretap channels and the inter-user interference channels. In view of the conflicting of two objectives, we propose a multi-objective optimization (MOO) framework to achieve the trade-off between them. The formulated MOO problem is non-convex and intractable. By employing the weighted Tchebycheff, the Taylor series expansion, and the S-procedure approaches, we convert the MOO problem into the convex one and propose an iterative algorithm to solve it optimally. Simulation results not only demonstrate an interesting trade-off between the considered conflicting objectives but also show the efficiency of our proposed robust resource allocation designs.