Wireless Endogenous Security for Future 6G Networks: Architectures, Mechanisms, and Intelligent Defense

Future wireless networks are expected to support ubiquitous connectivity, massive intelligence, ultra-low latency, and highly reliable services across terrestrial, aerial, and space domains. However, the openness, broadcast nature, heterogeneity, and software-defined evolution of wireless systems introduce increasingly complex security threats, including eavesdropping, spoofing, jamming, privacy leakage and adversarial attack. Traditional add-on security mechanisms are often insufficient to address dynamic, unknown, and intelligent attacks in large-scale wireless environments. Wireless endogenous security emphasizes security capabilities that are intrinsically embedded into network architectures, protocols, transmission mechanisms, and intelligent control loops, enabling systems to possess built-in resistance, resilience, and self-adaptive defense capabilities.This topic aims to explore fundamental theories, key technologies, and practical implementations of wireless endogenous security for 5G-Advanced and 6G networks. The goal is to investigate how security can be natively integrated into wireless communication systems rather than being treated as an external protection layer. We encourage contributions that address the design of secure-by-nature wireless architectures, endogenous defense mechanisms, physical-layer security techniques, dynamic heterogeneous redundancy, moving target defense, trusted networking, and AI-enabled security management. This topic also seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical security models and deployable solutions by considering realistic wireless constraints, such as mobility, imperfect channel state information, resource limitations, hardware impairments, protocol vulnerabilities, and cross-layer interactions. Studies that provide new insights into resilience, robustness, privacy preservation, and autonomous security orchestration are particularly welcome.We welcome original research articles, review papers, methods, perspectives, and experimental studies related to wireless endogenous security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Endogenous security architecture; 2. Physical-layer security; 3. Anti-jamming and anti-eavesdropping techniques; 4. Moving target defense; 5. AI-native and autonomous security mechanisms; 6. Secure resource allocation, beamforming and protocol design; 7. Cross-layer security optimization; 8. Testbeds, prototypes, and real-world validation; 9. Security for advanced wireless transmission technologies, including massive MIMO, RIS, UAV, satellite, IoT, vehicular, and edge networksBoth theoretical contributions and practical implementation-oriented studies are encouraged. Topic editors: Jide Yuan, Yuli Yang, Mohammed Elhajj Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85126/wireless-endogenous-security-for-future-6g-networks-architectures-mechanisms-and-intelligent-defense