WPLS 2016 - Workshop on Wireless Physical Layer Security

The emergence of large-scale, dynamic, and decentralized wireless networks imposes new challenges on
classical security measures such as cryptography. To this end, researchers have been seeking for new security
technologies to complement cryptography and significantly improve the overall security of wireless
communication networks. One of the most promising ideas is to exploit the physical layer characteristics of the
wireless channel such as fading or interference, which are traditionally seen as impediments, for improving the
security of wireless transmission against passive (e.g., eavesdropping) or active (e.g., jamming) attacks. This
emerging security technique, known as physical layer security, has drawn considerable attention in the past
few years.
The workshop is part of ICC’16. It builds on the success of the previous two editions (ICC’14 and ICC’15). The
workshop is expected to bring together academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss
the major technical challenges and recent results related to physical layer security in wireless networks. It will
feature a keynote and a panel discussion given by world leading researchers in the field.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
? Secrecy capacity and rate-equivocation region of MIMO, broadcast, or multiple access channels.
? Practical code design for physical layer security.
? Smart jamming attacks and countermeasures.
? Advanced signal processing and other space-time secure transmission techniques.
? Secure relaying and cooperative transmission techniques.
? Secure cross-layer design techniques.
? Game theory for wireless physical layer security.
? Secrecy graph and other stochastic geometry approaches.
? Secret key generation and agreement.
? Experimental results on enhancing secrecy at the physical layer.