Mobility-Aware ISAC-Assisted Cooperative Jamming for Secure Vehicular URLLC

Abstract

This paper investigates vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks under ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) constraints in the presence of a vehicular eavesdropper (VE). To address the lack of instantaneous eavesdropper channel state information (CSI) in high-mobility scenarios, a vehicular jammer (VJ) is employed to perform radar-based sensing and extended Kalman filter (EKF)-based tracking of the VE’s kinematic state. The estimated state information and its posterior uncertainty are shared with the legitimate transmitter and are used to construct uncertainty-aware spatial covariance matrices for the VE-related channels. Based on these covariance matrices, the VJ transmits artificial noise (AN) in the null space of the legitimate receiver, thereby degrading the VE’s reception while avoiding interference to the intended link. In this context, a finite-blocklength (FBL) secrecy-rate framework is developed together with a two-time-scale optimization strategy, where the sensing resources are optimized at the slot level to enhance EKF tracking accuracy, while the transmit covariance and AN covariance matrices are optimized at the frame level to maximize the average FBL secrecy rate. The resulting non-convex problem is handled through semidefinite relaxation (SDR), alternating optimization (AO), and successive convex approximation (SCA). Simulation results show that the proposed framework improves secrecy robustness against mobility and sensing-induced spatial uncertainty.