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Security and Privacy in Trustworthy 6G

A Physical Layer Perspective

  • 1st Edition - May 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Christos Masouros, Zhongxiang Wei
  • Language: English

Security and Privacy in Trustworthy 6G: A Physical Layer Perspective gives a comprehensive overview of fundamental principles and cutting-edge techniques, equipping the reader… Read more

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Description

Security and Privacy in Trustworthy 6G: A Physical Layer Perspective gives a comprehensive overview of fundamental principles and cutting-edge techniques, equipping the reader with a deep understanding of the underlying concepts and techniques in trustworthy 6G. The book provides guidance on practical implementation in areas such as secure precoding, secure waveform, power efficient secure techniques, and data/sensing security issues in ISAC. Additionally, the book explores diverse security requirements in applications, including data security, computing security, sensing security, and user anonymity, making it relevant for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in various domains.

Key features

  • Gives a comprehensive understanding of secure precoding, artificial noise jamming, and constructive interference
  • Presents unique challenges and insights on data and sensing security in ISAC systems
  • Provides a comprehensive understanding of differential privacy design and its applications in big data and computing systems
  • Includes state-of-the-art developments in covert communications design
  • Explains PHY layer anonymity, giving cutting-edge anonymous precoding designs
  • Highlights outstanding research challenges and future directions

Readership

Electronic and electrical engineers and computer scientists in academia and industry working in the fields of security, information theory, wireless communications, radar sensing, signal processing, and vehicular technology

Table of contents

Part I Security

1. Fundamentals of Information Theoretic PHY Security

2. Secure Precoding, Artificial Noise Jamming, and Cooperative Security

3. Secure Waveform Design

4. Power Efficient Security: Constructive-Destructive interference based PHY security

5. Data-Security in Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems

6. Sensing-Security in Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems

7. Environment Awareness and Security Opportunities with ISAC

Part II Privacy

8. Unlikability: Fundamentals of Differential Privacy

9. Unobservability: Covert communications and its applications

Part III Anonymity

10. Anonymity: Sender Detection and Anonymous precoding

11. Anonymity in the presence of Hardware Signatures: PHY Anonymity with practical IQ imbalance

12. Against Intelligent Adversary: Learning based PHY Anonymity

13. Open Problems and Future Directions in Secure, Private and Anonymous Communications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

CM

Christos Masouros

Christos Masouros (SMIEEE, MIET) is a Full Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications in the Information and Communication Engineering research group, Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and affiliated with the Institute for Communications and Connected Systems, University College London. His research interests lie in the field of wireless communications and signal processing with particular focus on Green Communications, Large Scale Antenna Systems, Integrated Sensing and Communications, interference mitigation techniques for MIMO and multicarrier communications. He held a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship between 2011-2016.

Affiliations and expertise
University College London, UK

ZW

Zhongxiang Wei

Zhongxiang Wei is currently an associate professor at Tongji University, China. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 research papers published on top-tier journals and international conferences. His research interests include anonymous communications, constructive interference design, millimeter-wave communications, and algorithm design. He has acted as a TPC member or the Session Chair of various international conferences. He was a recipient of an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE TWC in 2016, the Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2018, and the A*STAR Research Attachment Programme (ARAP) in 2016.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Tongji University, China