An active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (ASTAR-RIS)-aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) system is investigated in this paper. Specifically, a multi-antenna base station (BS) employs the RSMA protocol to communicate with a covert user and a public user with the help of an ASTAR-RIS in the presence of hardware impairments. For this setup, the outage probability (OP) and the detection error probability (DEP) of the warden are derived to characterize the covert communication performance. The covert transmission rate ( $C_{R}$ ) in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regions is also taken into consideration, for which an accurate approximate expression is presented. Based on the analytical results, the influences of the number of ASTAR-RIS elements, the RSMA factors, and the reflection coefficient of the ASTAR-RIS elements are analyzed. Finally, numeric simulations validate the correctness of the theoretical results presented in this paper.
Covert Communications for Active STAR-RIS-Aided RSMA Systems With Hardware Impairments
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 26 , 7 ; 10036-10047
2025-07-01
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