Secure RIS-Aided Multicasting: Globally Optimal Beam Management and Discrete-Phase RIS Configuration
Abstract
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are poised to revolutionize wireless multicasting by enabling extended coverage and reliable operation in obstructed environments. These benefits, however, can be undermined by security vulnerabilities arising from practical deployment factors. This work addresses three such critical factors, (i) the discrete nature of RIS phase shifts, (ii) the presence of colluding eavesdroppers, and (iii) the inefficiency of static illumination beams, each threatening security if not properly accounted for in system design. To mitigate these issues, we formulate a joint resource allocation problem that minimizes the wiretap signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) across all eavesdroppers by co-optimizing the RIS configuration and the base station (BS) beam management. This yields a complex, nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), which we equivalently reformulate into a tractable mixed-integer quadratically constrained program (MIQCP) solvable to global optimality. Numerical results confirm that the proposed scheme significantly bolsters security, suppressing the wiretap SNR by up to 58% compared to existing baselines.
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BibTeX
@misc{abantoleon2026secure,
title = {{Secure RIS-Aided Multicasting: Globally Optimal Beam Management and Discrete-Phase RIS Configuration}},
author = {Luis F. Abanto-Leon and Setareh Maghsudi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.21723},
eprint = {2609.21723},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21723},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Secure RIS-Aided Multicasting: Globally Optimal Beam Management and Discrete-Phase RIS Configuration
AU - Luis F. Abanto-Leon
AU - Setareh Maghsudi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/18
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.21723
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21723
AB - Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are poised to revolutionize wireless multicasting by enabling extended coverage and reliable operation in obstructed environments. These benefits, however, can be undermined by security vulnerabilities arising from practical deployment factors. This work addresses three such critical factors, (i) the discrete nature of RIS phase shifts, (ii) the presence of colluding eavesdroppers, and (iii) the inefficiency of static illumination beams, each threatening security if not properly accounted for in system design. To mitigate these issues, we formulate a joint resource allocation problem that minimizes the wiretap signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) across all eavesdroppers by co-optimizing the RIS configuration and the base station (BS) beam management. This yields a complex, nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), which we equivalently reformulate into a tractable mixed-integer quadratically constrained program (MIQCP) solvable to global optimality. Numerical results confirm that the proposed scheme significantly bolsters security, suppressing the wiretap SNR by up to 58% compared to existing baselines.
ER -