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Physical layer security (PLS) is seen as the means to enhance physical layer trustworthiness in 6G. This work provides a proof-of-concept for one of the most mature PLS technologies, i.e., secret key generation (SKG) from wireless fading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amitha Mayya , Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Gerhard Fettweis

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise (AN), as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hong Niu , Yue Xiao , Xia Lei , Jiangong Chen , Zhihan Xiao , Mao Li , Chau Yuen

Exploiting short packets for communications is one of the key technologies for realizing emerging application scenarios such as massive machine type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (uRLLC). In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chen Feng , Hui-Ming Wang , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study physical layer security for the downlink of cellular networks, where the confidential messages transmitted to each mobile user can be eavesdropped by both (i) the other users in the same cell and (ii) the users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Giovanni Geraci , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Jinhong Yuan , Iain B. Collings

Future wireless networks are convinced to provide flexible and cost-efficient services via exploiting network slicing techniques. However, it is challenging to configure network slicing systems for bursty ultra-reliable and low latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Peng Yang , Xing Xi , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jingxuan Chen , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Wu

Detection of emerging attacks on network infrastructure is a critical aspect of security management. To meet the growing scale and complexity of modern threats, machine learning (ML) techniques offer valuable tools for automating the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Aleksandra Knapińska , Marija Furdek

This paper explores a new secure wireless communication paradigm where the physical layer security technology is applied to counteract both the detection and eavesdropping attacks, such that the critical covertness and secrecy properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Huihui Wu , Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

The strict latency and reliability requirements of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) use cases are among the main drivers in fifth generation (5G) network design. Link adaptation (LA) is considered to be one of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Alessandro Brighente , Jafar Mohammadi , Paolo Baracca

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless communications have experienced an upsurge of interest in both military and civilian applications, due to its high mobility, low cost, on-demand deployment, and inherent line-of-sight (LoS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xiaofang Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Zhiguo Ding , Yanqing Xu , Zhangdui Zhong

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-user uplink channel. Since the instantaneous eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is unavailable, the secrecy rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiangrui Cheng , Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Wei Wang

Secure communication is considered with unreliable entanglement assistance, where the adversary may intercept the legitimate receiver's entanglement resource before communication takes place. The communication setting of unreliable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Meir Lederman , Uzi Pereg

Precise positioning is a key enabler for emerging 5G applications, from autonomous transport to industrial automation. Yet the open physical layer (PL) leaves standard positioning reference signals (PRSs) vulnerable to manipulation. This…

Traditional link adaptation (LA) schemes in cellular network must be revised for networks beyond the fifth generation (b5G), to guarantee the strict latency and reliability requirements advocated by ultra reliable low latency communications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Alessandro Brighente , Jafar Mohammadi , Paolo Baracca , Silvio Mandelli , Stefano Tomasin

Since security has been one of the crucial issues for high-yield communications such as 5G and 6G, the researchers continuously come up with newer techniques to enhance the security and performance of these progressive wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 T. Hossain , S. Shabab , A. S. M. Badrudduza , M. K. Kundu , I. S. Ansari

Wireless data communications are always facing the risk of eavesdropping and interception. Conventional protection solutions which are based on encryption may not always be practical as is the case for wireless IoT networks or may soon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Frank den Hartog

Within 3GPP, the campus network architecture has evolved as a deployment option for industries and can be provisioned using network slicing over already installed 5G public network infrastructure. In campus networks, the ultra-reliable low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Iulisloi Zacarias , Francisco Carpio , André Costa Drummond , Admela Jukan

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) can improve the physical layer security (PLS) by providing a controllable wireless environment. In this paper, we propose a novel PLS technique with the help of IRS implemented by an intelligent mirror…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Lei Qian , Xuefen Chi , Linlin Zhao , Anas Chaaban

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Du , Yanyu Cheng , Yushen Lin , Kah Chan Teh

Ultra reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) is a newly introduced service category in 5G to support delay-sensitive applications. In order to support this new service category, 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) sets an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Hyoungju Ji , Sunho Park , Byonghyo Shim

Ultra-reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) is a key feature of 5G systems. The quality of service (QoS) requirements imposed by URLLC are less than 10ms delay and less than $10^{-5}$ packet loss rate (PLR). To satisfy such strict…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Kirill Glinskiy , Evgeny Khorov , Alexey Kureev