Ensuring secure communication is crucial for mission-critical applications supported by Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) in 5G and future 6G networks. This survey presents a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art physical layer security (PLS) techniques used to provide secure URLLC while analyzing the impact of various system design parameters on its performance.
An attacker can prevent legitimate users from agreeing on the same secret key by deploying a malicious reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to break the channel reciprocity, a fundamental principle underlying channel reciprocity-based key generation (CRKG).