Secure IRS-assisted energy scavenging NOMA impaired by realistic factors

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-assisted energy scavenging (ES) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with jamming (sIEnoma) is promising for high spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, information security, and communication reliability. Nonetheless, practical imperfections, such as channel state information imperfection (CSIi), hardware imperfection (HWi), fading severity, and nonlinear energy scavenging (nlES) impact scavenged energy, information security, and communication reliability of sIEnoma. Accordingly, this paper proposes performance analysis for sIEnoma under these imperfections to quickly assess its potentials without time-consuming simulations. Results show that imperfections (HWi, CSIi, fading severity, nlES) and specifications (IRS, NOMA) significantly impact performance of sIEnoma. Nevertheless, proper adoption of power splitting factor, desired data rate, HWi level, and time switching coefficient can hinder complete outage in sIEnoma. Additionally, optimal metrics are achieved by configuring system parameters properly. Moreover, the proposed sIEnoma outperforms its baseline (IRS-assisted ES orthogonal multiple access with jamming).