Secrecy-Driven Robust Beamforming Under Age of Information Constraints for Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks
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Abstract
This paper presents a robust secure beamforming (BF) strategy that incorporates information freshness into the physical layer security (PLS) design of satellite-terrestrial integrated network (STIN). In the considered framework, satellite networks serve earth stations in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers, while terrestrial networks, operating over the same spectrum, provide multicast services to ground users. To capture the dynamics of status update timeliness, we model the evolution of the Age of Information (AoI) using a discrete-time Markov chain, taking into account both the activation thresholds and access probabilities of users. Based on this model, we derive a closed-form expression for the secrecy margin of the wiretap channel, thereby jointly quantifying data freshness and communication security. Assuming imperfect channel state information, we formulate an optimization problem to maximize the average secrecy margin, subject to constraints on average AoI, quality of service (QoS), eavesdropping probability, and total transmit power. To tackle the inherent non-convexity caused by probabilistic constraints, we adopt Bernstein-type inequalities to transform them into tractable deterministic equivalents. An efficient solution algorithm is then developed by integrating successive convex approximation with difference-of-convex programming, enabling effective computation of the optimal BF vectors. Extensive simulation results confirm that the proposed approach achieves notable improvements over existing methods in both secrecy performance and information freshness, offering a unified and practical solution for secure and timely communication in future 6 G integrated networks.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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