W9: Emerging Physical-layer Security Technologies and Applications for B5G and 6G
Co-Organizer: Trung Q. Duong, Memorial University, Canada
Co-Organizer: Eduard Axel Jorswieck, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Co-Organizer: Guyue Li, Southeast University; University of Liverpool, UK
Co-Organizer: Junqing Zhang, University of Liverpool, UK
Co-Organizer: Nan Zhao, Dalian University of 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 led to 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 results in difficulties for cryptographic key management and distribution. By exploiting the physical characteristics of devices, wireless channels and noise, PLS offers reliable and post-quantum secure 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, mechanisms, 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.
Program:
14:00 – 14:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH Advancing Wireless Trust: Cutting-Edge Physical Layer Security Dr. Ning Xie, Professor and Ph.D. Advisor at Shenzhen University, IET Fellow
14:30 – 14:45 Adaptive Artificial Noise Strategy With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Secure Communications Sri Wahyuni (National Yangming Chiaotung University); Jane-Hwa Huang (National Chi Nan University); Chih-Min Yu (Chung Yuan Christian University); Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao-Tung University)
14:45 – 15:00 Energy-Efficient Wireless Extended Reality (XR) Transmissions with Reliability and Security Guarantees in the Finite Blocklength Regime Xinyuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhao and Tao Guo (Southeast University)
15:00 – 15:15 Hybrid-Functional RIS-Assisted Covert Communications: A Mutualistic Symbiosis Design Yunpeng Feng, Lu Lv, Long Yang and Jian Chen (Xidian University); Yinghui Ye (Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London)
15:15 – 15:30 Joint Optimization Design for Active RIS-Assisted Maritime Secure ISAC System Ying Feng, Zhiquan Zhou, Jinlong Wang, Bo Li, Chenxu Wang and Siyuan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology); Junsheng Zhao(China Association of Communication Enterprises)
15:30 – 16:00 BREAK
16:00 – 16:15 LNN-Based Low-Complexity Secure beamforming for RIS Assisted Wireless Communication Systems Qilong Lou, Jie Xu, Yue Niu and Yinghui Zhang (Inner Mongolia University)
16:15 – 16:30 Huffman Coding-Inspired Secret Key Generation from Wireless Channel for Secure Communications Elmi Hassan Farah and Syed Junaid Nawaz (COMSATS University Islamabad), Shurjeel Wyne (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology), Haris Pervaiz (University of Essex), Aryan Kaushik (Manchester Metropolitan University), Mohammad N. Patwary (University of Wolverhampton)
16:30 – 16:45 Strict Secrecy Outage Performance for WPBC Under Energy-Causality Constraint Ying Li, Yaxiong Lei, Liqin Shi, Yinghui Ye and Jing Jiang (Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications)
16:45 – 17:00 The Optimization of XL-RIS-assisted Physical Layer Key Generation in Near-Field Jiaping Chen, Haoyu Li, Guyue Li and Xianghui Cao (Southeast University)
17:00 – 17:15 Time Generalization Oriented CNN-based RFFI Using WiSig Dataset: an Experimental Study Chaozheng Xue, Tao Li, Yongzhao Li, Yuhan Ruan, Rui Zhang and Dong Yan (Xidian University)
17:15 – 17:30 UAV-Enabled Covert Communication Against Uncertainly Located Warden Huaqing Yang, Dongdong Li, Hu Wang, Linhan Wang and Zhutian Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology)
CLOSING REMARKS
Co-Organizer’s Bios:
Trung Q. Duong
Dr. Trung Q. Duong (IEEE Fellow, EIC Fellow, and AAIA Fellow) is a Canada Excellence Research Chair and Full Professor at Memorial University, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His current research interests include quantum optimisation and machine learning in wireless communications. He has published 600+ books/book chapters/papers with 22,000+ citations and h-index 80. He has served as an Editor for many reputable IEEE journals (IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans on Communications, IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters) and has been awarded best paper awards in many flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, 2019, and 2022. He has received two prestigious awards from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), including: 1) RAEng Research Chair and 2) RAEng Research Fellow. In 2017, he was awarded the Newton Prize from the UK government. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.\
Eduard Axel Jorswieck
Eduard Axel Jorswieck is full professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Physics of TU Braunschweig. He is the managing director of the Institute for Communications Technology and Full Professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany. From 2008 until 2019, he was the head of the Chair for Communications Theory and Full Professor at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He is IEEE Fellow. His general interests are in signal processing for communications and networking, applied information theory and communication theory. His research interests include multiple antenna communications, wireless interference networks, reliability and resilience, and physical layer security. He has published more than 190 journal articles, 18 book chapters, one book, four monographs, and some 340 conference papers. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He and his colleagues were also recipients of the Best Paper Awards and the Best Student Paper Awards from the IEEE CAMSAP 2011, IEEE WCSP 2012, IEEE SPAWC 2012, IEEE ICUFN 2018, PETS 2019, and ISWCS 2019, and IEEE ICC 2024. Since 2017, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Since 2024, he has been an Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY. He was on the editorial boards of the IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS.
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 include 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 (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Liverpool, UK. He received his Ph.D. in electronics and electrical engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, UK in Jan. 2016. His research interests include wireless security, physical layer security, key generation, radio frequency fingerprint identification, and wireless sensing. Dr Zhang is a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He served as a TPC co-chair of AI and Machine Learning for Communications and Networking (AMCN) of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium of IEEE ICC 2023, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2022, IEEE WCNC 2025 physical layer security workshop, IEEE INFOCOM 2023 – 2025 DeepWireless Workshop, IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC 2024-2025 Wireless Security Workshop, ACM 2023 WiseML Workshop, IEEE WCNC 2023 Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security (TCPLS) and IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 TCPLS Workshop.
Junqing Zhang
Junqing Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Liverpool, UK. He received his Ph.D. in electronics and electrical engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, UK in Jan. 2016. His research interests include wireless security, physical layer security, key generation, radio frequency fingerprint identification, and wireless sensing. Dr Zhang is a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He served as a TPC co-chair of AI and Machine Learning for Communications and Networking (AMCN) of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium of IEEE ICC 2023, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2022, IEEE WCNC 2025 physical layer security workshop, IEEE INFOCOM 2023 – 2025 DeepWireless Workshop, IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC 2024-2025 Wireless Security Workshop, ACM 2023 WiseML Workshop, IEEE WCNC 2023 Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security (TCPLS) and IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 TCPLS Workshop.
Nan Zhao
Nan Zhao (Senior Member, IEEE) is a professor at Dalian University of Technology, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering in 2011, from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He won the best paper awards in IEEE VTC 2017 Spring, ICNC 2018, WCSP 2018 and WCSP 2019. He also received the IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Board Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2018. He served as a technical editor for various journals, to name a few, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He also organized several international conferences as the symposium TPC chair, for example, IEEE Globecom 2022, IEEE WCSP 2022, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2020, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2018, IEEE WCSP 2018, and IEEE SAGC 2020. He served as a TPC member for IEEE GLOBECOM from 2013 to 2022, for IEEE ICC from 2018 to 2022, for VTC from 2016 to 2022. He won the exemplary editor award for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2023, the exemplary reviewer award for IEEE Transactions on Communications twice in 2018 and 2019, the Top reviewer award for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2016, the exemplary reviewer award for IEEE Communications Letters in 2016. His research interests include UAV communications, NOMA physical layer security, covert communications, and interference alignment.