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 …

5G networks must provide a highly resilient, secure, and privacy-protected platform to
support the emergence of new business and technologies expected from the so-called …

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

The research studies hyper-Rayleigh behavior of a wireless communication system
functioning in the presence of the generalized multipath fading. Although the initial metric …

A realistic performance assessment of any wireless communication system requires the use
of a fading channel model that reflects its main characteristics. The traditional Rayleigh and …

This paper investigates the impact of realistic propagation conditions on the achievable
secrecy performance of multiple-input multiple-output systems in the presence of an …

Channel modeling is a critical issue when designing or evaluating the performance of
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications. Inspired by the promising …

Physical layer security (PLS) has been proposed to afford an extra layer of security on top of
the conventional cryptographic techniques. Unlike the conventional complexity-based …

Holographic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (HMIMO), which densely integrates numerous
antennas into a limited space, is anticipated to provide higher rates for future 6G wireless …

This chapter presents the fundamentals of physical layer security (PLS) and its road‐map
toward 6G. After reading this chapter you should be able to: Understand the main concepts …