Ph.d. Position On Physical Layer Security for

**Ph.D. position on Physical Layer Security for wireless IoT devices**:

- Réf **ABG-125681**
- Sujet de Thèse- 05/09/2024- Contrat doctoral- Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique- Lieu de travail- Bordeaux - Nouvelle Aquitaine - France- Intitulé du sujet- Ph.D. position on Physical Layer Security for wireless IoT devices- Champs scientifiques- Informatique
- Electronique
- Télécommunications
- Mots clés- wireless sensor networks, IoT, signal processing, security protocols, encryption, authentication**Description du sujet**:
**Position Context**:
The research work will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Stéphane Delbruel (University of Bordeaux) and Pr. Laurent Réveillère (University of Bordeaux).
Applicants must have an MSc degree in either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent), be fluent in English, and demonstrate strong team-working abilities.

**Scientific Context**:
Mass adoption, among others within critical use cases, led to a strong need to provide security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to energy constrained environments, limited computing power and connectivity as well as heterogeneity within the used radio technologies, current approaches fail to provide full security coverage at a satisfactory energy demand.

Facing these difficulties, it becomes of prime importance to investigate novel security mechanisms able to operate in a more pervasive fashion within the end-devices. Physical layer-based security is a novel and promising approach based on information-theoretic security, operating at the lowest level and providing secure mechanisms relying on physical phenomena of the radio link itself.
We propose to investigate a novel network and system security paradigm, able to strengthen the authentication and secrecy guarantees offered by any infrastructure operator while simplifying their implementation.

**Subject description**

The goal of this Ph.D research project is to investigate and propose new approaches to use PHY-based authentication in LPWANs, by overcoming some of the current practical limitations of PHY-based authentication.

As a PhD student, you work towards a Doctoral degree as the final goal. Most of your time will be devoted to working on research projects in which you will develop proofs-of-concept to experimentally evaluate and explore aspects of security in wireless sensor networks. You will communicate your results at international conferences and in scientific journals.

**Nature du financement**:

- Contrat doctoral**Précisions sur le financement**:

- Fully funded**Présentation établissement et labo d'accueil**:

- Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en InformatiqueThe University of Bordeaux situated in the south-west of France is home to 50000 students and more than 500 permanent researchers in its Department of Science and Technologies. Research teams are organized within mixed research units comprised of university researchers along side CNRS and INRIA researchers. Computer science research teams are hosted inside a dedicated laboratory, the _Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique_ (LaBRI) which along the last years enabled to build more than 235 academic collaborations, invited 212 researchers and received more than 35 awards.

Among the various teams present at LaBRI, **Progress** team is one that focuses on system oriented research, especially network and systems related. This team tackles the challenges necessary to ease and optimize the implementation of computing systems, from source code deployment up to network communications. Progress team is well known in the middleware community for its renowned expertise in distributed systems as well as in the network community for its work on wireless communications.

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**Intitulé du doctorat**:

- Ph.D. in Computer Science**Pays d'obtention du doctorat**:

- France**Etablissement délivrant le doctorat**:

- University of BordeauxApplicants must have an MSc degree in either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent), be fluent in English, and demonstrate strong team-working abilities.- 31/12/2024