Extended zero-trust and intelligent security for resilient and quantum-safe 6G networks and services

Project Information

XTRUST-6G

Grant agreement ID: 101192749

DOI

10.3030/101192749

EC signature date 2 December 2024

Start date 1 January 2025

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 8 480 395,00

EU contribution

€ 7 998 595,00

Coordinated by

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Greece

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Publications

Conference proceedings (18)

Predicting EV Charging Station Load by Applying LSTM Techniques

Author(s): Apostolos Valiakos, Alexios Lekidis, Papageorgiou Elpiniki
Published in: 2025 16th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IISA66859.2025.11311334

Adapt-LFA: Adaptive Gradient-Guided Label Flipping Attack Against Federated Learning-based Intrusion Detection in IoT

Author(s): Hadiseh Rezaei, Rahim Taheri, Ivan Jordanov, Stavros Shiaeles
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130071

Energy-Efficient Resource Management via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in O-RAN

Author(s): Shaoxuan Wang, John S. Vardakas, Christos Verikoukis
Published in: ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC59461.2026.11587974

Post-Quantum Security Evaluation of Aeronautical Communications

Author(s): Konstantinos Spalas, Nicholas Kolokotronis
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130013

Application-Specific Routing Strategies in SDN-Enabled Quantum Key Distribution Networks for 6G Security

Author(s): Haftay Gebreslasie Abreha, Francesco Vista, Intidhar Bedhief, Seid Koudia, Symeon Chatzinotas
Published in: 2026 International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/QCNC69040.2026.00065

Jamming-Resilient Handover Triggering for Programmable 6G Radio Access Networks using Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): George Amponis, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Antonios Sarigiannidis, Georgios Kakamoukas, Thomas Boufikos, Thomas Lagkas, Vasileios Argyriou, Theofano Kollatou, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Published in: 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN66355.2025.11349416

CTI-GEN: A Framework for Generating STIX 2.1 Compliant CTI Using Generative AI

Author(s): Angelos Papoutsis, Athanasios Dimitriadis, Dimitrios Kavallieros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Georgios Meditskos
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15711250

Evaluating Model Robustness Under Adversarial Shifts

Author(s): Eleni Ketzaki, Dimitrios Kavallieros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: 2026 32nd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICT70370.2026.11594742

Knowledge Distillation-Driven Federated Learning as a Service for Resource-Constrained Edge Intelligence

Author(s): Filippo Vannella, Tianyue Chu, David Solans Noguero, Sotirios Spantideas
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Swarm Intelligence, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-26123-6_33

Audio-deepfake: Generation Methods, Legitimate Applications and the Potential for Misuse

Author(s): Gueltoum Bendiab, Kamel Zeltni, Mohamed Bader-El-Den, Stavros Shiaeles
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130020

Jamming-Resilient Handover Triggering for Programmable 6G Radio Access network Using Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): George Amponis, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Antonios Sarigiannidis, Georgios Kakamoukas, Thomas Boufikos, Thomas Lagkas, Vasileios Argyriou, Theofano Kollatou, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Publisher: IEEE

Evaluating Forensic Log Readiness in Simulated 6G Networks

Author(s): Syed Rizvi, Bander Ali Saleh Al-Rimy, Nasreen Anjum, Aikaterini Kanta
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130064

Fortified Control-Plane Encapsulation with Session-Key Derivation for Secure IP Mesh Routing

Author(s): George Amponis, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Thomas Lagkas, Vasileios Argyriou, Antonios Sarigiannidis, Natasa Kazakli, Thomas Boufikos, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130165

RuleXploit: A Framework for Generating Suricata Rules from Exploits Using Generative AI

Author(s): Angelos Papoutsis, Athanasios Dimitriadis, Ilias Koritsas, Dimitrios Kavallieros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15711290

MiniLib: A flow analysis–based approach for attack surface reduction through software debloating

Author(s): Loukas Kopanias, Panagiotis Sotiropoulos, Nicholas Kolokotronis, Costas Vassilakis
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11129981

DLT-EVA: Hardening O-RAN Auditing and Digital Evidence Preservation Through Blockchain

Author(s): Konstantinos Ntouros, Eleftherios Poulitsis, Sotirios Brotsis, Konstantinos P. Grammatikakis, Nicholas Kolokotronis
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130031

Evaluating 5G-enabled EV Charging Infrastructure’s Resilience Through Stealthy Cyber-Attacks

Author(s): Dimitrios Psaltis, Konstantinos Ntouros, Alexios Lekidis, Sotirios Brotsis, Nicholas Kolokotronis
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130009

EcoLearn: Optimizing the Carbon Footprint of Federated Learning

Author(s): Talha Mehboob, Noman Bashir, Jesus Omaña Iglesias, Michael Zink, David Irwin
Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3769102.3770625

Peer reviewed articles (8)

A Next-Generation Cyber-Range Framework for O-RAN and 6G Security Validation

Author(s): Evangelos Chaskos, Nicholas Kolokotronis, Stavros Shiaeles
Published in: Future Internet, Issue 18, 2026, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/FI18010029

Distributed Key Relay: OSPF for Effective QKD

Author(s): Youssouf Drif, Intidhar Bedhief, Symeon Chatzinotas
Published in: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Issue 10, 2026, ISSN 2471-2825
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.2025.3572642

A Next-Generation Cyber-Range Framework for O-RAN and 6G Security Validation

Author(s): Evangelos Chaskos, Nicholas Kolokotronis, Stavros Shiaeles
Published in: Future Internet, Issue 18, 2026, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/FI18010029

A deep one-class classifier for network anomaly detection using autoencoders and one-class support vector machines

Author(s): Polyzois Bountzis, Dimitris Kavallieros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: Frontiers in Computer Science, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2624-9898
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FCOMP.2025.1646679

Beyond vulnerabilities: A comprehensive survey of adversarial attacks across domains

Author(s): Dimitrios Christos Asimopoulos, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Published in: Computer Science Review, Issue 61, 2026, ISSN 1574-0137
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COSREV.2026.100963

Perspectives on Safety for Autonomous Vehicles

Author(s): Rahul Razdan, Raivo Sell, M. Ilhan Akbas, Mahesh Menase
Published in: Electronics, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14224500

Blockchain architectures for enhancing EV infrastructure security: A unified framework for addressing sophisticated cyber-attacks

Author(s): Georgios Germanos, Alexios Lekidis, Sotirios Brotsis, Nicholas Kolokotronis
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 182, 2026, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURE.2026.108426

Distributed Key Relay: OSPF for Effective QKD

Author(s): Youssouf Drif, Intidhar Bedhief, Symeon Chatzinotas
Published in: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 2025, ISSN 2471-2825
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.2025.3572642