This paper studies the physical layer security for a double reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided wireless powered communication system in the presence of an eaves-dropper, where a user acts as friendly jammer (J) to emit the artificial noise to improve the transmission security of another user. In particular, three RIS transmission schemes are proposed: 1) In scheme-I, both RISs are designed as optimal phase shift of wireless user (U); 2) In scheme-II, the first RIS is designed as optimal phase shift of U and the second RIS is designed as optimal phase shift of J, respectively; 3) In scheme-III, the first RIS is designed as optimal phase shift of J and the second RIS is designed as optimal phase shift of U, respectively. To reveal the achieved reliability and security performance of proposed three schemes, we analyze the connection outage probability (COP) and secrecy outage probability (SOP), respectively. The results show that scheme-II and scheme-III have the same COP performance and both of them are worse than scheme-I. The scheme-III achieves the best SOP performance, while scheme-I achieves the worst SOP performance that is slightly inferior to scheme-II.

This paper studies simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided secure wireless powered communication. Specifically, we propose an energy splitting protocol based STAR-RIS transmission scheme, combined with an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), to enhance both energy transfer and information transmission for indoor and outdoor users against eavesdropping attacks. The accurate and asymptotic connection outage probabil-ities, secrecy outage probability, and effective secrecy throughput are analyzed to evaluate the proposed scheme's performance and the impact of key parameters. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the dual transmit/reflect-only RIS scheme. Although slightly less effective than traditional direct transmission scheme at the low transmit power region, the proposed scheme's efficacy rapidly surpasses that of direct transmission as the transmit power increases.

This article investigates a reliable and secure wireless-powered communication system assisted by a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) serving indoor and outdoor users. To align with practical application, we consider two eavesdropping conditions: mixed and indirect eavesdropping links. To improve the reliability and security of downlink energy transfer (ET) and uplink information transmission (IT), we propose four STAR-RIS schemes utilizing time-switching (TS) and energy-splitting (ES) protocols: 1) The dual-TS (DTS) scheme employs the TS protocol for both downlink ET and uplink IT; 2) The mixed ES-TS (MET) scheme switches from the ES protocol in downlink ET to the TS protocol in uplink IT; 3) The dual-ES (DES) scheme employs the ES protocol for both downlink ET and uplink IT; 4) The mixed TS-ES (MTE) scheme switches from the TS protocol in downlink ET to the ES protocol in uplink IT. Further, accurate and asymptotic connection outage probability, secrecy outage probability, and effective secrecy throughput are analyzed for each proposed scheme. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that: 1) At high transmission power or with a large number of STAR-RIS elements, the MTE scheme achieves the highest reliability. Conversely, the DES scheme provides the best reliability at lower transmission power or with fewer STAR-RIS elements; 2) Under indirect eavesdropping links, the DES scheme achieves the highest security, followed by the MTE, MET, and DTS schemes. However, this performance order is reversed under mixed eavesdropping links; 3) The DES scheme achieves the best overall performance, followed by the MTE, MET, and DTS schemes, all of which outperform the benchmark schemes.