Multi-Functional RIS-Assisted Semantic Anti-Jamming Communication and Computing in Integrated Aerial-Ground Networks

Mobile edge computing-assisted integrated aerial-ground network (MEC-IAGN) emerges as a promising key component of the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks due to its potential capabilities in providing ubiquitous connectivity for global coverage and computing services. However, the inevitable existences of computation-intensive tasks, uncontrollable propagation environment, and malicious jamming attacks pose three significant bottlenecks for enabling efficient MEC-IAGN. With these focuses, we propose a novel framework of multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) aided semantic anti-jamming communication and computing in MEC-IAGN. Under this framework, a semantic transceiver exhibits inherent robustness and data compression capability, and MF-RIS can customize the full-space wireless environment by leveraging its signal reflection, refraction, amplification, and energy harvesting functions, thereby achieving substantial global coverage, reliable connectivity, and high-rate computing. Based on our proposed framework, we formulate a semantic computation rate maximization problem considering the impacts of jammer’s channel state information (CSI) imperfection, while maintaining the energy partition constraint for computation offloading decision, semantic similarity requirement, semantic computation rate target, and MF-RIS’s self-sustainability. Then, by transforming the imperfect CSI into a worst-case one by exploiting a discretization method, we propose a fast-converging monotonic optimization algorithm that is combined with decoupling second-order cone programming to obtain a globally optimal solution with fewer feasibility evaluations. Furthermore, to strike a satisfactory tradeoff between performance and computational complexity, we develop a suboptimal generalized power iteration algorithm. Numerical simulations demonstrate the superiority of our proposed framework and algorithms compared to various benchmarks.