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PAPER ACCEPTED at IEEE CSCN 2026
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Our paper “An AI-Enhanced Framework for Secure and Trustworthy 6G Services: The PAISES-6G Approach” has been accepted for Special Session 4 AI-Nativeness for 6G: Architectures and Technologies at the IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking 2026.
The premise is simple to state and hard to engineer: in an open, multi-vendor 6G software supply chain, no AI/ML model or network function should be trusted by default.
PAISES-6G treats security, trust and privacy as first-class Security Services with explicit attributes, policies and SLAs, not properties verified after the fact. The paper sets out a functional architecture in which trustworthiness is established from three sources of evidence:
- Pre-deployment validation against a Network Digital Twin, on synthetic, privacy-preserving data
- Blockchain-backed attestation of the model’s supply chain and runtime integrity
- Collaborative threat intelligence shared across administrative domains
That evidence gates a zero-touch deployment decision, alongside a QKD SDN controller for quantum-safe operation and a privacy-preserving JCAS and telemetry module. We evaluate the approach across three illustrative use cases: industrial IoT, global security, and network dynamics.
CSCN is the right venue for this work. Standards are where architectural intent becomes interoperable reality, and the gaps we identify, particularly around the hardening of Secure Application and Key Management Entities left unspecified in current ETSI QKD interfaces. These are standardisation questions as much as research ones.
Congratulations to our co-authors across the consortium!!! Paper details and open-access version will be available soon. Stay tuned!!!