Physical layer security (PLS) has proven to be a potential solution for enhancing the security
performance of future 5G networks, which promises to fulfill the demands of increasing user …

5G network is expected to support massive user connections and exponentially increasing
wireless services, which makes network security unprecedentedly important. Unlike …

Wireless physical layer security (WPLS) is a powerful technology for current and emerging
mobile networks. Physical layer authentication (PLA), antenna selection (AS), and relay …

Wireless systems have become an increasingly pivotal part of our lives. Various critical
applications and use cases such as healthcare, financial transactions, e-commerce …

Recently, the physical layer has gained a more prominent role on the security context of
wireless networks due to its potentiality on providing more effective solutions to safeguard …

The fifth generation (5G) wireless technologies serve as a key propellent to meet the
increasing demands of the future Internet of Things (IoT) networks. For wireless …

The key principle of physical layer security (PLS) is to permit the secure transmission of
confidential data using efficient signal-processing techniques. Also, deep learning (DL) has …

Physical layer security is a promising approach that can benefit traditional encryption
methods. The idea of physical layer security is to take advantage of the propagation …

The eight articles in this special section provide the latest survey of physical layer security
research on various promising techniques for 5G era and beyond networks. The number of …

The sixth generation (6G) of mobile network will be composed by different nodes, from
macro-devices (satellite) to nano-devices (sensors inside the human body), providing a full …