Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey

<p dir="ltr">With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere comes with security threats that, unfortunately, cannot be handled by conventional crypto...

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Main Author: Abdullateef Almohamad (16870074) (author)
Other Authors: Anas M. Tahir (16870077) (author), Ayman Al-Kababji (16870080) (author), Haji M. Furqan (16870083) (author), Tamer Khattab (16870086) (author), Mazen O. Hasna (16870089) (author), Huseyin Arslan (16870092) (author)
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Cybersecurity and privacy
Data management and data science
Distributed computing and systems software
Measurement
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Security
Reliability
Communication system security
Wireless networks
Physical layer security (PLS)
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
Secrecy outage probability
Secrecy rate
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description <p dir="ltr">With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere comes with security threats that, unfortunately, cannot be handled by conventional cryptographic solutions alone, especially in heterogeneous and decentralized future wireless networks. In general, physical layer security (PLS) helps in bridging this gap by taking advantage of the fading propagation channel. Moreover, the adoption of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless networks makes the PLS techniques more efficient by involving the channel into the design loop. In this article, we conduct a comprehensive literature review on the RIS-assisted PLS for future wireless communications. We start by introducing the basic concepts of RISs and their different applications in wireless communication networks and the most common PLS performance metrics. Then, we focus on the review and classification of RIS-assisted PLS applications, exhibiting multiple scenarios, system models, objectives, and methodologies. In fact, most of the works in this field formulate an optimization problem to maximize the secrecy rate (SR) or secrecy capacity (SC) at a legitimate user by jointly optimizing the beamformer at the transmitter and the RIS’s coefficients, while the differences are in the adopted methodology to optimally/sub-optimally approach the solution. We finalize this survey by presenting some insightful recommendations and suggesting open problems for future research extensions.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2020.3023731" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2020.3023731</a></p>
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spelling Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short SurveyAbdullateef Almohamad (16870074)Anas M. Tahir (16870077)Ayman Al-Kababji (16870080)Haji M. Furqan (16870083)Tamer Khattab (16870086)Mazen O. Hasna (16870089)Huseyin Arslan (16870092)Information and computing sciencesCybersecurity and privacyData management and data scienceDistributed computing and systems softwareMeasurementArray signal processingSecurityReliabilityCommunication system securityWireless networksPhysical layer security (PLS)Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)Secrecy outage probabilitySecrecy rate<p dir="ltr">With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere comes with security threats that, unfortunately, cannot be handled by conventional cryptographic solutions alone, especially in heterogeneous and decentralized future wireless networks. In general, physical layer security (PLS) helps in bridging this gap by taking advantage of the fading propagation channel. Moreover, the adoption of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless networks makes the PLS techniques more efficient by involving the channel into the design loop. In this article, we conduct a comprehensive literature review on the RIS-assisted PLS for future wireless communications. We start by introducing the basic concepts of RISs and their different applications in wireless communication networks and the most common PLS performance metrics. Then, we focus on the review and classification of RIS-assisted PLS applications, exhibiting multiple scenarios, system models, objectives, and methodologies. In fact, most of the works in this field formulate an optimization problem to maximize the secrecy rate (SR) or secrecy capacity (SC) at a legitimate user by jointly optimizing the beamformer at the transmitter and the RIS’s coefficients, while the differences are in the adopted methodology to optimally/sub-optimally approach the solution. We finalize this survey by presenting some insightful recommendations and suggesting open problems for future research extensions.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2020.3023731" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2020.3023731</a></p>2020-09-16T00:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1109/ojcoms.2020.3023731https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Smart_and_Secure_Wireless_Communications_via_Reflecting_Intelligent_Surfaces_A_Short_Survey/24016122CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/240161222020-09-16T00:00:00Z
spellingShingle Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
Abdullateef Almohamad (16870074)
Information and computing sciences
Cybersecurity and privacy
Data management and data science
Distributed computing and systems software
Measurement
Array signal processing
Security
Reliability
Communication system security
Wireless networks
Physical layer security (PLS)
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
Secrecy outage probability
Secrecy rate
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title Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
title_full Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
title_fullStr Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
title_full_unstemmed Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
title_short Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
title_sort Smart and Secure Wireless Communications via Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Short Survey
topic Information and computing sciences
Cybersecurity and privacy
Data management and data science
Distributed computing and systems software
Measurement
Array signal processing
Security
Reliability
Communication system security
Wireless networks
Physical layer security (PLS)
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
Secrecy outage probability
Secrecy rate