Fifth generation (5G) wireless networks promise to revolutionize the way we communicate and connect to the internet. However, as with any new technology, 5G networks also bring new security challenges that need to be addressed. One of the key areas o...
The open nature of radio propagation enables ubiquitous wireless communication. This allows for seamless data transmission. However, unauthorized users may pose a threat to the security of the data being transmitted to authorized users. This gives ri...
Semantic communication based on deep learning technology extracts the meaning of the transmitted source to achieve spectrum resource savings and enhance anti-interference capabilities. The black-box nature of deep learning models increases the diffic...
This paper deals with the problem of securing the configuration phase of an Internet of Things (IoT) system. The main drawbacks of current approaches are the focus on specific techniques and methods, and the lack of a cross layer vision of the proble...
In this work, we consider the pros and cons of using various layers of keyless coding to achieve secure and reliable communication over the Gaussian wiretap channel. We define a new approach to information theoretic security, called practical secrecy...
In contrast to the network security that relies on upper-layer encryption for the confidentiality and authenticity of communications, physical layer security (PLS) exploits the uniqueness and randomness of the physical channel to encrypt information...
This paper presents an advanced framework for securing 6G communication by integrating deep learning and physical layer security (PLS). The proposed model incorporates multi-stage detection mechanisms to enhance security against various attacks on th...
With the expansion of wireless mobile networks into both the daily lives of individuals as well as into the widely developing market of connected devices, communication is an increasingly attractive target for attackers. As the complexity of mobile c...
Physical layer security for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a laborious and highly critical issue in the world. Wireless sensor networks have great importance in civil and military fields or applications. Security of data/information through wirel...
With the continuous development of millimeter-wave communication technology, new requirements such as ultra-reliability and higher data rates pose new challenges to the security issues of traditional cryptographic encryption in vehicular ad hoc netwo...
The evolution journey of optical network (ON) towards heterogeneous and flexible frameworks with high order of applications is continued from the last decade. Furthermore, the prominence of optical security, amount of transmitted data, bandwidth, and...
With the success and commercialization of 5G, 3GPP has started working toward the sixth generation of communication systems. While 5G explored the concept of non-terrestrial networks like satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles working alongside terr...
In this paper, we proposed a scheme that Injects artificial noise from the tag end (IANT) to enhance the physical layer security of the ambient backscatter communication (ABC) system. The difference between the ABC system and the traditional radio fr...
Physical layer security is an attractive security mechanism, which exploits the randomness characteristics of wireless transmission channel to achieve security. However, it is hampered by the limitation of the channel condition that the main channel...
Many physical-layer security works in the literature rely on purely theoretical work or simulated results to establish the value of physical-layer security in securing communications. We consider the secrecy capacity of a wireless Gaussian wiretap ch...
Multi-Input, Multi-Output (MIMO) techniques are seeing widespread usage in wireless communication systems due to their large capacity gains. On the other hand, security is a concern of any wireless system, which can make schemes that implement physic...
In recent years, ensuring communication security at the physical layer has become increasingly important due to the transmission of sensitive information over various networks. Traditional approaches to physical layer security often rely on artificia...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used in different disciplines, including transportation systems, agriculture field environment monitoring, healthcare systems, and industrial monitoring. The security challenge of the wireless communication...
Terahertz (THz) communication above 100 GHz is widely recognized as a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) networks because of its ultra-broad bandwidth and strong directionality. Meanwhile, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has conside...
This article highlights challenges associated with securing visible light communication (VLC) systems by using physical layer security (PLS) techniques. Motivated by the achievements in PLS studies for radio frequency (RF) communication, many PLS tec...
In this paper, the physical layer security over the M-distributed fading channel is investigated. Initially, an exact expression of secrecy outage probability (SOP) is derived, which has an integral term. To get a closed-form expression, a lower boun...
In this paper, we consider information transmission over a three-node physical layer security system. Based on the imperfect estimations of the main channel and the eavesdropping channel, we propose reducing the outage probability and interception pr...
With the uninterrupted revolution of communications technologies and the great-leap-forward development of emerging applications, the ubiquitous deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) is imperative to accommodate constantly growing user demands and m...
In this work, we mainly focus on low probability detection (LPD) and low probability interception (LPI) wireless communication in cyber-physical systems. An LPD signal waveform based on multi-carrier modulation and an under-sampling method for signal...
In this paper, we propose a beamformer design scheme for wireless physical layer security using partial channel state information (CSI) in millimeter wave channels. The partial CSI used in this work is the range of angle-of-departure (AOD). Assuming...
Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a relevant technology for realizing the primary goals of next-generation wireless networks, such as high connectivity and stability. Because a rising number of users are becoming connected, user data security h...
Current wireless communication systems employ Multi-Input, Multi-Output (MIMO) techniques to increase spectral efficiency, at the cost of higher hardware complexity. Most of these systems continue to employ traditional Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA...
With the proliferation of 5G mobile networks within next-generation wireless communication, the design and optimization of 5G networks are progressing in the direction of improving the physical layer security (PLS) paradigm. This phenomenon is due to...
This paper discusses the concept and practicality of internet-of-things (IoT) link security enhancements using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and beamforming solutions at the physical layer of the wireless system. Large-scale MIMO and beamform...
In order to secure wireless communications, we consider the usage of physical-layer security (PLS) mechanisms (i.e., coding for secrecy mechanisms) combined with self-interference generation. We present a prototype implementation of a scrambled codin...
Physical layer security (PLS) is a fundamental challenge for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, particularly in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where sensing targets may simultaneously act as potential eavesdroppers. In thi...
Mobile edge cache (MEC)-enabled air-to-ground integrated Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology can solve wireless network backhaul congestion and high latency, but security problems such as eavesdropping are often ignored when designing cache strateg...
The massive connectivity requirement and security issues have become major factors restricting the further development of the Internet of Things. Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can be combined with physical layer security (PLS) to achieve massi...
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging wireless communication technology that has attracted significant attention, particularly in the field of physical layer security (PLS). This paper proposes a novel double-RIS-aided PLS commun...
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), as an emerging radio technology, are widely used to expand the transmission distance and structure cascade channels to improve the performance of communication systems. However, based on the continuous deve...
In this paper, a secure communication model for cognitive multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with underlay spectrum sharing is investigated. A secondary (cognitive) multi-user massive MIMO system is operated by using und...
The aerial–terrestrial integrated Internet of Things (ATI-IoT) utilizes both aerial platforms (e.g., drones and high-altitude platform stations) and terrestrial networks to establish comprehensive and seamless connectivity across diverse geogra...
Low-altitude cellular-enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide potential supplementary platforms to assist air-to-ground cooperative communication. This paper investigates a joint safety information interaction scheme for a UAV-enabled network...
As one of the main candidates for future civil aviation communications systems, the L-band digital aeronautical communication system (L-DACS) is expected to achieve secure and reliable transmission. Due to the broadcasting nature of air–ground...
Since the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) transmits information signals by jointly transmission, the multiple copies of information signals might be eavesdropped on. Therefore, this paper studies the resource allocation algorithm for secure energy...
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and wireless energy harvesting are two promising technologies for improving spectral efficiency and energy efficiency, respectively. In this paper, we study the physical layer security of a wireless-powered full-...
In this paper, we study the physical layer security (PLS) of opportunistic scheduling for uplink scenarios of multiuser multirelay cooperative networks. To this end, we propose a low-complexity, yet comparable secrecy performance source relay selecti...
The article presents an analysis of the physical layer security of a wireless communication system functioning in the presence of multipath fading and a wiretap. Under the assumption of the equal propagation conditions (both for the legitimate receiv...
Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received much interest from both academia and industry due to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness in adjusting the phase and amplitude of wireless signals with low-cost passive reflecting...
In this paper, the physical-layer security for a three-node wiretap system model is studied. Under the threat of multiple eavesdroppers, it is presumed that a transmitter is communicating with a legitimate receiver. The channels are assumed to be fol...
In the fast-changing world of wireless communications, the combination of extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) and energy-efficient transmission methods is envisioned for the 6G. The application of directivity in the transmitted constellation can i...
With the wide application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the military and civilian fields, the physical layer security of UAV-assisted communication has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS...
Cooperative relaying is an effective technology to improve the capacity of physical-layer security, in which the relay helps forward the received signal to the destination. In this paper, a cooperative compressive sensing and amplify-and-forward (CCS...
Intentional electromagnetic interference attacks (e.g., jamming) against wireless connected devices such as the Internet of Things (IoT) remain a serious challenge, especially as such attacks evolve in complexity. Similarly, eavesdropping on wireless...
Directional modulation (DM), as an emerging promising physical layer security (PLS) technique at the transmitter side with the help of an antenna array, has developed rapidly over decades. In this study, a DM technique using a polarization sensitive...
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