New Security for Intelligent Meta-Surfaces
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 110
Special Issue Editors
Interests: graph signal processing; matrix completion; secure wireless communications; explainable artificial intelligence (X-AI) for digital aviation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of reconfigurable intelligent meta-surfaces has recently advanced the research of wireless communications, becoming a promising candidate for the Beyond 5G and 6G communications. This raises new security issues in the physical layer. For example, an adversarial passive intelligent surface can be inserted into an environment to (i) intercept the communication streaming, (ii) crack the secret keys generated by the legitimate channel reciprocity, (iii) act as a jammer to destroy the channels, etc. Given the reflective elements of meta-surfaces, authenticating them is difficult, as it is difficult to transmit hash-valued public keys for authentication purposes actively.
To address these challenges, we propose the Special Issue entitled “New Security for Intelligent Meta-Surfaces”. The goal of this Special Issue is to showcase the latest research on how to design new security frameworks to guarantee the security of meta-surfaces. These include but are not limited to physical layer security, cryptography, radio-frequency fingerprint, optimization, artificial-intelligence-based techniques to enhance security performance, etc. Papers are also highly welcome that describe the hardware designs of the meta-surfaces to achieve the concept “security by design”, including both numerical and experimental analysis.
Dr. Zhuangkun Wei
Dr. Liang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reconfigurable intelligent surface
- cyber security
- physical layer security
- radio-frequency fingerprint
- cryptography
- authentication
- optimization
- artificial intelligence
- hardware security by design
