Increasing secrecy capacity for intelligent reflective surface-assisted wireless communications

A system, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• determining a location within an environment to position a reflective surface that reflects radio communication signals from a transmitter associated with the environment, the determining of the location comprising:
• determining respective secrecy capacity data based on varying respective candidate locations for the reflective surface to vary respective beamforming vector data by changing respective first phase shift angles of reflective elements of the reflective surface relative to a first receiver at a first area within the environment and respective second phase shift angles relative to a second receiver at a second area within the environment;
• and
• selecting, as the location within the environment to position the reflective surface, a candidate location of the respective candidate locations that increases the secrecy capacity data of the first receiver to at least a threshold highest available value of the secrecy capacity data.