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

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

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 …

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 …

Physical layer security (PHY-security) takes the advantages of channel randomness nature
of transmission media to achieve communication confidentiality and authentication. Wiretap …

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 …

Physical layer security (PLS) has emerged as a new concept and powerful alternative that
can complement and may even replace encryption-based approaches, which entail many …

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 …

Abstract Physical Layer Security (PLS) is an emerging paradigm employed to enhance
wireless network security without relying on higher-layer encryption techniques. PLS …

Wireless communication has already had a transformative impact on lifestyles, as well as the
way of interacting and communicating, throughout many years. This transformation is …