Context-Aware Security for 6G Wireless The Role of Physical Layer Security
This work addresses the problem of enhancing security in future 6G wireless systems for network operators and users, proposing an incremental approach by integrating physical layer security with context awareness.
This paper explores the potential of physical layer security solutions to address new security challenges in 6G wireless systems by leveraging enhanced sensing and localization capabilities for context-aware security protocols.
Sixth generation systems are expected to face new security challenges, while opening up new frontiers towards context awareness in the wireless edge. The workhorse behind this projected technological leap will be a whole new set of sensing capabilities predicted for 6G devices, in addition to the ability to achieve high precision localization. The combination of these enhanced traits can give rise to a new breed of context-aware security protocols, following the quality of security (QoSec) paradigm. In this framework, physical layer security solutions emerge as competitive candidates for low complexity, low-delay and low-footprint, adaptive, flexible and context aware security schemes, leveraging the physical layer of the communications in genuinely cross-layer protocols, for the first time.