W5: Emerging physical-layer security technologies and applications for BG5 and 6G

Co-organizer: Eduard Axel Jorswieck, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
Co-organizer: Liquan Chen, Southeast University, China
Co-organizer: Guyue Li, Southeast University, China
Co-organizer: Junqing Zhang, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Co-organizer: Weitao Xu, City University of Hong Kong, China

Keynote Speaker: Liang Xiao, Xiamen University, Fujian, China
Keynote Speaker: Hongbo Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China

Abstract: This workshop mainly focuses on the development of physical-layer security (PLS) technologies and their potential applications for the future beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) networks. The tremendous growth in connectivity and the ubiquity of wireless communications have resulted in an unprecedented awareness of the importance of security and privacy. Achieving secure and trusted communications is vital for the deployment of future intelligent connected applications, especially life-critical vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications. However, the heterogeneous, dynamic and decentralized architecture of these networks leads to difficulties for cryptographic key management and distribution. By exploiting the physical characteristics of devices, wireless channels and noise, PLS offers reliable solutions against eavesdropper attacks as complementary approaches to cryptographic techniques.

The workshop aims at sharing the advancements in the PLS field and spreading the adoption in scenarios of B5G and 6G. In order to spark more ideas and future research, we will invite experts and scholars in relevant fields around the world to share their insights into the topics of physical layer security model, mechanism and applications in B5G and 6G networks. We hope to foster an exchange of research results, experiences, and products in the physical layer security domain from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

Workshop program can be found here:  W5_VTC23Fall_Workshop_Program

 

Keynotes:

 

Liang Xiao

Title: Reinforcement Learning Based Maritime Communications Against Jamming and Interference

Abstract: Maritime communications with sea surface reflections and sea wave occlusions have to improve communication performance against jamming for booming maritime services with diverse quality of service. In this talk, we formulate a maritime anti-jamming communication game by analyzing the impact of the communication mode and wave height. A safe RL algorithm with a hierarchical structure is designed to compress the high-dimensional action set for large-scale maritime systems and avoid the dangerous anti-jamming policies that cause learning failure in deteriorated maritime communication environments. We also propose a reinforcement learning-based maritime anti-jamming communication scheme, which jointly optimizes the transmit channel and power, relay, and trajectory based on channel conditions, wave height, evaporation effect, quality of service requirement, and jamming characteristics to improve multi-dimensional anti-jamming performance.

Bio: Liang Xiao is currently a Professor in the Department of Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Fujian China. She is an IEEE Senior member, and member of IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data. She has served in several editorial roles, including an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Trans. Commun and IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. Her research interests include wireless security, machine learning, wireless communications and maritime communications. She won the best paper award for 2017 IEEE ICC and 2016 IEEE INFOCOM Bigsecurity WS. She received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2000, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, NJ, in 2009. She was a visiting professor with Princeton University, Virginia Tech, and University of Maryland, College Park.

 

Hongbo Liu

Title: Secret key Generation over Wireless Channel from a Non-quantization Perspective

Abstract: Securing wireless communication remains challenging in dynamic mobile environments due to the shared nature of wireless medium and lacking of fixed key management infrastructures. Using physical layer information of radio channel to generate shared secret keys for pairwise wireless devices has become a promising alternative. Most of existing work rely on quantization technique to convert reciprocal channel measurements into digital binaries as secret keys. However, non-simultaneous packet exchanges in time division duplex systems and noise effects in practice usually create random channel measurements with large discrepancy between two users, leading to inconsistent quantization results and mismatched secret bits. In order to overcome the consequences of quantization, some non-quantization techniques are introduced to improve the performance of key generation, although there are still some inherent defects. This talk will introduce our recent work on secret key generation over wireless channel from the non-quantization perspective.

Bio: Dr. Hongbo Liu is a Professor of School of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China since 2020. Before that he was an Associate Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA. He has published over 80 top-tier journal articles and referred conference papers, including ACM MobiCom, IEEE TMC, IEEE INFOCOM, etc. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from ACM MobiCom 2011, Best Paper Runner-up Award from IEEE CNS 2013, and Best Paper Award from IEEE CNS 2018. His research interests include physical layer security, wireless sensing and mobile computing, etc.

Co-organizer’s bios:

Eduard Axel Jorswieck:

Eduard Axel Jorswieck (Fellow, IEEE) is managing director of the Institute of Communications Technology and the head of the Chair for Communications Systems and Full Professor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (TUBS), Brunswick, Germany. From 2008 until 2019, he was the head of the Chair of Communications Theory and Full Professor at Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Germany. Eduard’s main research interests are in the broad area of communications. He has published more than 150 journal papers, 15 book chapters, 3 monographs, and some 300 conference papers on these topics. Dr. Jorswieck is IEEE Fellow. Since 2017, he has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Currently, he serves as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. In 2006, he received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.

Liquan Chen:

Liquan Chen (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, China in 2005. He worked as a postdoc in Southeast University from 2005 to 2007, and an associate professor at Southeast University from 2008 to 2018. He worked as visiting scholar in National University of Singapore, Singapore from 2011 to 2012, and became a senior member of IEEE since 2022. He now is the Associate Dean and Full Professor at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His research interests include information security, cryptography and network security protocol, etc.

Guyue Li:

Guyue Li (Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor with the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University and Visiting Scholar at Tampere University of Technology, Finland and Universite´ Gustave Eiffel Noisy-le-Grand, France (ESIEE PARIS). Her research interests include wireless network attacks and physical-layer security solutions for 5G and 6G. Her main research topics includes secret key generation, radio frequency fingerprint and reconfigurable intelligent surface. She was a recipient of the Young Scientist awarded by International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and won the Youth Science and Technology Prize of Jiangsu Cyber Security Association, the A-Level Zhishan Scholar of Southeast University. Dr. Li has been the Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE VTC from 2021 to 2022. She is currently serving as an Editor of IEEE Communication Letters and an Associate Editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Junqing Zhang:

Junqing Zhang (Member, IEEE) is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the University of Liverpool, U.K. He received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, U.K., in 2016. From February 2016 to January 2018, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Queen’s University Belfast. Since February 2018, he has been a Tenure Track Fellow (an Assistant Professor) with the University of Liverpool, U.K. His research interests include the Internet of Things, wireless security, physical-layer security, key generation, radio frequency fingerprint identification and wireless sensing.

Weitao Xu:

Weitao Xu (Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. Before that, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of New South Wales (UNSW) from June 2017 to August 2019. He obtained PhD degree from the University of Queensland in 2017 (advised by Prof. Neil Bergmann and Prof. Wen Hu). He has relatively broad research interests, but generally HIS research focuses on IoT such as smart sensing, IoT security, IoT+AI, wireless network etc. He has regular publications in top-tier venues such as MOBICOM, INFOCOM, UBICOMP, S&P, USENIX SECURITY, TMC, TOSN. He is the recipient of Google 2016 PhD Fellowship, 2022 SIGBED China Rising star award, Stanford’s top 2% most highly cited scientists 2022.

Deadlines:
Paper submission deadline: August 28, 2023
Acceptance notification: September 03, 2023
Final paper submission deadline:September 09, 2023

To submit a paper, please visit: https://vtc2023f-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2207