Physical Layer Security

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of Physical Layer Security (PLS), a crucial approach to securing communication systems by exploiting the physical properties of wireless channels. PLS enhances the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted data, making it particularly important in modern wireless networks, including 5G/6G, IoT, and satellite communication systems.

• Introduction to Physical Layer Security (PLS) and its motivation in modern wireless systems
• Secrecy capacity, wiretap channel models, and secure beamforming fundamentals
• Role of Channel State Information (CSI) in secure transmission
• Techniques for secure communication: beamforming, artificial noise, power control, and secrecy rate optimization
• Physical-layer cryptography vs. traditional cryptography approaches
• MIMO-based physical layer security and cooperative relaying
• Impact of interference, fading, and noise on secrecy performance
• Applications in 5G/6G, IoT, satellite, and optical wireless communication systems
• Performance metrics: secrecy rate, outage probability, BER, and reliability trade-offs
• Current challenges, open research problems, and future directions in PLS

• Wireless communication engineers working on 5G/6G and beyond
• RF, optical wireless, and satellite communication researchers
• Graduate students and academics in telecommunications and signal processing
• Security engineers interested in hardware-level and physical-layer protection
• IoT and embedded system developers dealing with secure connectivity
• Defense, aerospace, and critical infrastructure technology teams
• AI/ML engineers exploring secure and robust communication systems
• Professionals seeking advanced knowledge in next-generation network security technologies