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However, prior work has not exploited the spatial flexibility of MAs and the extended coverage of STAR-RIS to simultaneously address security issues. In this paper, a novel MA- and STAR-RIS-assisted secure ISAC system is proposed that involves multiple legitimate users and potential eavesdroppers. To ensure fairness, we formulate a minimum secrecy rate maximization problem by jointly optimizing the active beamforming covariance matrices at the base station (BS), the passive transmitting and reflecting beamforming coefficients at the STAR-RIS, and the spatial positions of the MAs. To address the highly nonconvex optimization problem, we propose an efficient iterative algorithm based on the alternating optimization (AO) framework. Specifically, we leverage semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques to solve the active and passive beamforming subproblems, and the SCA method is also applied to tackle the highly intractable MA position optimization subproblem. Numerical results demonstrate that the secure performance of the proposed MA and STAR-RIS-assisted scheme significantly outperforms that of other benchmark schemes, validating the benefits of the proposed algorithm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27121180","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,21]],"date-time":"2025-11-21T08:59:46Z","timestamp":1763715586000},"page":"1180","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Secrecy Rate Maximization for Movable Antenna-Aided STAR-RIS in Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Guanyi","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3835-4923","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinlong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"},{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Electronic Information and Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Cross-Domain Synergy and Comprehensive Support for Unmanned Marine Systems, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Donglai","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Measurement-Control Technology and Communications Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}]},{"given":"Chenxu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Electronic Information and Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Cross-Domain Synergy and Comprehensive Support for Unmanned Marine Systems, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Electronic Information and Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Cross-Domain Synergy and Comprehensive Support for Unmanned Marine Systems, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiquan","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Electronic Information and Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Cross-Domain Synergy and Comprehensive Support for Unmanned Marine Systems, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Guo, S., Zheng, H., Zhang, Y., and Yan, J. 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