Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Physical-Layer Security (eBook)

This book discusses the problems of  Physical Layer Security (PLS) in Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-assisted wireless networks.

It also discusses the corresponding methods to solve these problems in a comprehensive style.  Furthermore, some potential challenges are well analyzed.

This book is divided into 11 chapters.  Chapter 1 introduces the propagation characteristics of IRS-aided PLS communications. From Chapter 2 to Chapter 10,

The authors mainly provide deep investigations of different PLS problems of  IRS-aided wireless networks, namely, directional modulation (DM) networks. Chapter 11 draws a conclusion and includes the future research directions.

Researchers working in wireless communications, or advanced-level computer science or electrical engineering students, can learn about secure communication in the physical layer through our book.

Professionals or engineers working in this field will also benefit from this book.

Feng Shu received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Southeast University, China, in 2002.  From September 2009 to September 2010, he was a Visiting Post-doctor with the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA. From October 2005 to November 2020, he was with the School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, where he was promoted from Associate Professor to a Full Professor of supervising Ph.D. students in 2013. Since December 2020, he has been with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China, where he is currently a Professor and supervisor of Ph.D. and graduate students. His research interests include wireless networks, wireless location, and array signal processing. He is awarded with the Leading-talent Plan of Hainan Province in 2020, Fujian hundred-talent plan of Fujian Province in 2018, and Mingjian Scholar Chair Professor in 2015. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 in archival journals with more than 120 papers on IEEE Journals and 200 SCI-indexed papers. His citations are 4386. He holds thirty Chinese patents and also are PI or CoPI for seven national projects. He was an IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer for 2020. He is currently the Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and was an editor for the IEEE Systems Journal.