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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Lingyi, Wu, Wei, Zhou, Fuhui, Qin, Zhijin, Wu, Qihui
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Wang, Lingyi
Wu, Wei
Zhou, Fuhui
Qin, Zhijin
Wu, Qihui
author_facet Wang, Lingyi
Wu, Wei
Zhou, Fuhui
Qin, Zhijin
Wu, Qihui
contents Different from traditional secure communication that focuses on symbolic protection at the physical layer, semantic secure communication requires further attention to semantic-level task performance at the application layer. There is a research gap on how to comprehensively evaluate and optimize the security performance of semantic communication. In order to fill this gap, a unified semantic security metric, the cross-layer semantic secure rate (CLSSR), is defined to estimate cross-layer security requirements at both the physical layer and the application layer. Then, we formulate the maximization problem of the CLSSR with the mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). We propose a hierarchical AI-native semantic secure communication network with a reinforcement learning (RL)-based semantic resource allocation scheme, aiming to ensure the cross-layer semantic security (CL-SS). Finally, we prove the convergence of our proposed intelligent resource allocation, and the simulation results demonstrate that our proposed CLSS method outperforms the traditional physical layer semantic security (PL-SS) method in terms of both task reliability and CLSSR.
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spellingShingle Cross-Layer Security for Semantic Communications: Metrics and Optimization
Wang, Lingyi
Wu, Wei
Zhou, Fuhui
Qin, Zhijin
Wu, Qihui
Information Theory
Different from traditional secure communication that focuses on symbolic protection at the physical layer, semantic secure communication requires further attention to semantic-level task performance at the application layer. There is a research gap on how to comprehensively evaluate and optimize the security performance of semantic communication. In order to fill this gap, a unified semantic security metric, the cross-layer semantic secure rate (CLSSR), is defined to estimate cross-layer security requirements at both the physical layer and the application layer. Then, we formulate the maximization problem of the CLSSR with the mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). We propose a hierarchical AI-native semantic secure communication network with a reinforcement learning (RL)-based semantic resource allocation scheme, aiming to ensure the cross-layer semantic security (CL-SS). Finally, we prove the convergence of our proposed intelligent resource allocation, and the simulation results demonstrate that our proposed CLSS method outperforms the traditional physical layer semantic security (PL-SS) method in terms of both task reliability and CLSSR.
title Cross-Layer Security for Semantic Communications: Metrics and Optimization
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12818