Privacy-first Security Enablers for 6G Networks

Project Information

PRIVATEER

Grant agreement ID: 101096110

DOI

10.3030/101096110

Project closed

EC signature date 23 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 5 046 687,50

EU contribution

€ 4 756 585,00

Coordinated by

SPACE HELLAS ANONYMI ETAIREIA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES TILEPIKOINONIONPLIROFORIKIS ASFALEIAS - IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPERISION ASFA
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Use cases, requirements and design report

Identification of relevant use cases and scenarios for assessing the PRIVATEER framework, as well as detailed design and specification of the latter. Output of Tasks T2.2 and T2.3.

Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Plan

A plan for the impact maximisation activities of the project, as well as the digital communication channels (website, social accounts etc.) established. Output of Tasks T6.1, T6.2, T6.3

Report on Ethics, Legal and Regulatory aspects management

A report containing all the findings (and appropriate responses) related to the ethics, legal and regulatory implications of the project implementation and (mainly) its results. Output of Task T1.3.

Other (2)

Decentralised robust security analytics enablers – Rel. A

Interim release of the PRIVATEER components for decentralised robust security analytics and XAI decision support, unit-tested and verified, as well as the infrastructure for AI acceleration (Software/Hardware and accompanying report). Output of Tasks T3.1, T3.2, T3.3, T3.4, T3.5.

Distributed attestation, identity and threat sharing enablers – Rel. A.

Interim release of the PRIVATEER software components for distributed attestation, DLT-based verifiable credentials as well as privacy-preserving CTI sharing (Software and accompanying report). Output of Tasks T5.1, T5.2, T5.3, T5.4, T5.5.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

5G/6G Architecture Evolution for XR and Metaverse: Feasibility Study, Security, and Privacy Challenges for Smart Culture Applications

Author(s): Maria Christopoulou, Ioannis Koufos, George Xilouris, Nikos Dimitriou
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3578595

WiFi-Based Location Tracking: A Still Open Door on Laptops

Author(s): Mariana Cunha; Ricardo Mendes; Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye; João P. Vilela
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2025, ISSN 2644-1268
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCS.2025.3569437

Compromising location privacy through Wi-Fi RSSI tracking

Author(s): Mariana Cunha, Ricardo Mendes, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, João P. Vilela
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-22799-1

Delving Into Security and Privacy of Joint Communication and Sensing: A Survey

Author(s): Óscar G. Martins, Henrik Åkesson, Marco Gomes, Diana P. M. Osorio, Padmanava Sen, João P. Vilela
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3574859

Advancing Predictive Security for Consumer Applications in Beyond 5G/6G Networks With Annotated Datasets

Author(s): George Xylouris, Athina Vekraki, Maria Christopoulou, Michail Alexandros Kourtis, Evangelos K. Markakis, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Issue 71, 2025, ISSN 0098-3063
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2025.3567151

Trust Evaluation Techniques for 6G Networks: A Comprehensive Survey with Fuzzy Algorithm Approach

Author(s): Elmira Saeedi Taleghani; Ronald Iván Maldonado Valencia; Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco; Luis Javier García Villalba
Published in: Electronics, 2024, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: Electronics
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS13153013

FBBTrust: Decentralized trust modeling in 6G via fuzzy inference, BiLSTM, and blockchain

Author(s): Elmira Saeedi Taleghani; Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco; Luis Javier García Villalba
Published in: Computer Networks, 2026, ISSN 1872-7069
Publisher: Computer Networks
DOI: 10.1016/J.COMNET.2025.111868

Conference proceedings (15)

User Terminals as Attackers: An Open Dataset Analysis of DDoS Attacks in 5G Networks

Author(s): Maria Christopoulou, Apostolis Garos, Athina Vekraki, Dimitris Santorinaios, Ioannis Koufos, Sofia Karamitsiani, George Xilouris, Michail-Alexandros Kourtis, Georgios Gardikis, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN63874.2024.10849694

A Privacy-Aware Remapping Mechanism for Location Data

Author(s): D. Guilherme, M. Cunha, J. Vilela
Published in: 2024, ISBN 9798400702433
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3605098.3636050

throttLL’eM: Predictive GPU Throttling for Energy Efficient LLM Inference Serving

Author(s): Andreas Kosmas Kakolyris, Dimosthenis Masouros, Petros Vavaroutsos, Sotirios Xydis, Dimitrios Soudris
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HPCA61900.2025.00103

Implementation of a traffic flow path verification system in a data network

Author(s): J. Martinez, M. Forcada, A. Pastor, D. Lopez, J. Lopez
Published in: 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597042

Explainable Reputation Estimation from Web Service Reviews

Author(s): Elmira Saeedi Taleghani, Ronald Iván Maldonado Valencia, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Luis Javier García Villalba
Published in: First Summer School on Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity, 2026
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ENGPROC2026123020

Towards Asynchronous Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Systems

Author(s): Christos Sad, George Retsinas, Dimitrios Soudris, Kostas Siozios, Dimosthenis Masouros
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3721146.3721952

Post-Quantum and Blockchain-Based Attestation for Trusted FPGAs in B5G Networks

Author(s): Ilias Papalamprou, Nikolaos Fotos, Nikolaos Chatzivasileiadis, Anna Angelogianni, Dimosthenis Masouros, Dimitrios Soudris
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11043710

Optimizing QAM Demodulation with NEON SIMD and Algorithmic Approximation Techniques

Author(s): I. Papalamprou, G. Armeniakos, I. Stratakos, G. Lentaris, D. Soudris
Published in: 2024
Publisher: ACM

Towards Privacy-First Security Enablers for 6G Networks: The PRIVATEER Approach

Author(s): D. Masouros et al.
Published in: 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-46077-7
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46077-7_25

Performance comparison of NWDAF-based security analytics techniques in 5G/B5G networks

Author(s): Garos, Apostolis; Alabasis, Nikos; Katsarou, Victoria; Gardikis, Georgios; Christopoulou, Maria; Santorinaios, Dimitris
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13709711

Privkit: A Toolkit of Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Data Types

Author(s): M. Cunha, G. Duarte, R. Andrade, R. Mendes, J. Vilela
Published in: 2024, ISBN 9798400704215
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3626232.3653284

On the Difficulty of NOT being Unique: Fingerprinting Users from Wi-Fi Data in Mobile Devices

Author(s): Mariana Cunha, Ricardo Mendes, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, João P. Vilela
Published in: Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3672608.3707966

Adrias: Interference-Aware Memory Orchestration for Disaggregated Cloud Infrastructures

Author(s): D. Masouros, C. Pinto, M. Gazzetti, S. Xydis and D. Soudris
Published in: 2023, ISSN 2378-203X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HPCA56546.2023.10070939

Multi-Partner Project: Secure Hardware Accelerated Data Analytics for 6G Networks: The PRIVATEER Approach

Author(s): Ilias Papalamprou, Aimilios Leftheriotis, Apostolos Garos, Georgios Gardikis, Maria Christopoulou, George Xilouris, Lampros Argyriou, Antonia Karamatskou, Nikolaos Papadakis, Emmanouil Kalotychos, Nikolaos Chatzivasileiadis, Dimosthenis Masouros, George Theodoridis, Dimitrios Soudris
Published in: 2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10992981

PRIVATEER: Secure FPGA Acceleration for 6G AI Edge Analytics

Author(s): Aimilios Leftheriotis, Ilias Papalamprou, Apostolos Garos, Georgios Gardikis, Maria Christopoulou, George Xilouris, Georgios Livanos, Nikolaos Papadakis, Dimosthenis Masouros, George Theodoridis, Dimitrios Soudris
Published in: 2025 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISVLSI65124.2025.11130215

Other (13)

Innovative Approaches for 6G Security: Challenges, Solutions, and Impact

Author(s): Pérez Palma, Noelia; Skarmeta Gómez, Antonio; Bisson, Pascal
Published in: 6G-IA Security Working Group, 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14619618

PRIVATEER Deliverable D2.3: PRIVATEER Framework Demonstrator - Rel.A

Author(s): Xilouris, George; Christopoulou, Maria; Dimitris, Santorinaios
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13255551

6G KVIs – SNS Projects Initial Survey Results 2025

Author(s): Patsouras, Ioannis; Charemis, Athanasios; Wedikkara Gedara, Imesha; Ghoraishi, Mir; Basaras, Pavlos; Mesogiti, Ioanna; Theodoropoulou, Elina; Lazaro, Jose Antonio; Petersen, Katrina
Published in: SNS JU website, 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15220946

PRIVATEER White Paper: Security- and Privacy-related KPIs/KVIs for 6G

Author(s): "National Centre of Scientific Research ""Demokritos"" ROR, Space Hellas (Greece), Infili Technologies, IPO Porto, Telefonica Research and Development"
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11402378

Network & Service Management Advancements - Key frameworks and Interfaces towards open, Intelligent and reliable 6G networks

Author(s): Tsolkas, Dimitris; Artuñedo Guillen, David; Gavras, Anastasius; Tranoris, Christos; Laki, Sándor; Skarmeta Gómez, Antonio; Barraca, João Paulo; Makropoulos, George; Vilalta, Ricard
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14234898

PRIVATEER White Paper: Security- and Privacy-related KPIs/KVIs for 6G

DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11402378

PRIVATEER Deliverable D2.1: 6G threat landscape and gap analysis

Author(s): Fabrizio Scaglione; Cristian Petrollini; Francesco Manti
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14547748

PRIVATEER Deliverable D3.1: Decentralised Robust Security Analytics Enablers - Rel.A.

Author(s): Argyriou, Lambros; Karamatskou, Antonia
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12530825

European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem

Author(s): Uusitalo, Mikko; Bernardos, Carlos Jesus; Kaloxylos, Alexandros; Bourse, Didier Arnaud; Norp, Toon; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Hecker, Artur; Rugeland, Patrik; Papagianni, Chrysa; Bulakci, Ömer; Li, Xi; Ericson, Mårten; Anton-Haro, Carles; Massod Khorsandi, Bahare; Ramos-Lopez, Aurora; Frascolla, Valerio; Marco, Gramaglia; Gavras, Anastasius; Trichias, Konstantinos
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14230482

PRIVATEER Deliverable D4.1: Privacy-aware slicing and orchestration enablers - Rel.A

Author(s): Alonso-López, Jesús; Saeedi Taleghani, Elmira
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12531563

Network & Service Management Advancements - Key frameworks and Interfaces towards open, Intelligent and reliable 6G networks

Author(s): Tsolkas, Dimitris; Artuñedo Guillen, David; Gavras, Anastasius; Tranoris, Christos; Laki, Sándor; Skarmeta Gómez, Antonio; Barraca, João Paulo; Makropoulos, George; Vilalta, Ricard
Published in: SNS JU Reliable Software Networks Working Group, 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15011613

AI/ML as a Key Enabler of 6G Networks: Methodology, Approach and AI-Mechanisms in SNS JU

Author(s): Trichias, Konstantinos; Christopoulou, Maria; Porambage, Pawani; Benzaid, Chafika; Vassiliou, Vasos; Artuñedo Guillén, David; Tsolkas, Dimitris; Avgeris, Marios; Papagianni, Chrysa; Jain, Akshay; Kilper, Daniel; Chen, Tao
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14623106

PRIVATEER Deliverable D1.2: Report on Ethics, Legal and Regulatory aspects management

Author(s): Katsarou, Victoria
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14506369

Book chapters (1)

Optimizing QAM Demodulation with NEON SIMD and Algorithmic Approximation Techniques

Author(s): Ilias Papalamprou, Giorgos Armeniakos, Ioannis Stratakos, George Lentaris, Dimitrios Soudris
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78377-7_11