Security and privacy for reconfigurable intelligent surface in 6G: A review of prospective applications and challenges

F Naeem, M Ali, G Kaddoum, C Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are expected to bring about an explosion of
accessible user information and novel technologies, along with new threats to terrestrial and …

Security and privacy vulnerabilities of 5G/6G and WiFi 6: Survey and research directions from a coexistence perspective

K Ramezanpour, J Jagannath, A Jagannath - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Spectrum scarcity has been a major concern for achieving the desired quality of experience
(QoE) in next-generation (5G/6G and beyond) networks supporting a massive volume of …

Energy efficient robust beamforming and cooperative jamming design for IRS-assisted MISO networks

Q Wang, F Zhou, RQ Hu, Y Qian - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficient design and secure communications are of crucial importance in wireless
communication networks. However, the energy efficiency achieved by using physical layer …

Physical layer security for beyond 5G/6G networks: Emerging technologies and future directions

F Irram, M Ali, M Naeem, S Mumtaz - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Cross-modal stream scheduling for eHealth

L Zhou, D Wu, X Wei, J Chen - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cross-modal applications that elaborately integrate audio, video, and haptic streams will
become the mainstream of the eHealth systems. However, existing stream schedulers …

Secure RIS-aided MISO-NOMA system design in the presence of active eavesdropping

L Chai, L Bai, T Bai, J Shi… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As for the time-division communications system, the pilot spoofing attack (PSA) technique is
maliciously utilized by active eavesdroppers during the uplink training phase, for …

Secure multigroup multicast communication systems via intelligent reflecting surface

F Shu, J Wang - Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Physical-Layer …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter considers a secure multigroup multicast MISO communication system aided by
an IRS. Specifically, we aim to minimize the transmit power at Alice via jointly optimizing the …

Intelligent reflecting surface aided pilot contamination attack and its countermeasure

KW Huang, HM Wang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pilot contamination attack (PCA) in a time division duplex wireless communication system is
considered, where an eavesdropper (Eve) attacks the reverse pilot transmission phase in …

Physical layer security for massive access in cellular Internet of Things

Q Qi, X Chen, C Zhong, Z Zhang - Science China Information Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The upcoming fifth generation (5G) cellular network is required to provide seamless access
for a massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices over the limited radio spectrum. In …

Intelligent reflecting surface backscatter enabled uplink coordinated multi-cell MIMO network

S Xu, C Chen, Y Du, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) backscatter based uplink
coordinated transmission strategy for a radio cellular network, where IRS serves as a …