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Currently, IMT 2030 proposes trustworthiness as a new characteristic in the 6G vision, and Huawei mentions native trustworthiness for 6G technology and requirements. In fact, various standard organizations, such as 3GPP, ETSI, and IEEE have been working on trustworthiness topics. Meanwhile, the world's major communications companies, including China Mobile, Nokia, Ericsson, etc., have clearly stated the need for 6G trustworthiness in their 6G initiatives, proposals, and white papers. Furthermore, many researchers have published technical work on the definition, generation, protection, and optimization of trustworthiness. All of these indicate that trustworthiness will become an indispensable key feature in 6G.

First, as a new characteristic, how to define trustworthiness in 6G is an open issue. Can trustworthiness be straightforwardly equated with safety, security, privacy, reliability, and resilience, or is it characterized by behaving exactly as expected? Second, what key performance indicators are typically suitable for trustworthiness and how to rate trustworthiness precisely. These challenges have not been well addressed. Lastly, due to the diversity of the concept of trustworthiness in academia and industry, there are many views on theories, technologies, and applications for trustworthiness in 6G, which have not yet reached a consensus to form a clear and systematic guide for the coming 6G era. The objective of this Special Issue (SI) is to enable both academic and industry researchers to present their research on trustworthy 6G. The SI also seeks to identify new application areas within this developing field and strongly encourages original research articles related to this topic, as well as high-quality review articles describing the current state of the art. Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Definitions of trustworthiness in relation to safety, security, privacy, reliability, robustness, resilience, explainability, accountability, integrity, availability, etc.
• Traditional technologies, information theory, cryptography, zero-trust, zero-knowledge proofs, artificial intelligence, etc., for trustworthy 6G.
• New capabilities of Account, Authorization, Authentication, Audit, etc. for trustworthy 6G.
• Integration of trustworthiness at the physical, data link, and network layers of 6G.
• Trustworthy environment engineering in 6G.
• Testing and evaluating trustworthiness in 6G.
• Industry and standardization efforts on trustworthy 6G.

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Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the "Information for Authors" of the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines.

Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to Manuscript Central. The timetable is as follows:

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 August 2024
Initial Decision Date: 1 October 2024
Revised Manuscript Due: 1 November 2024
Final Decision Date: 1 December 2024
Final Manuscript Due: 1 February 2025
Publication Date: April 2025

Guest Editors

Bin Cao
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Abbas Kiani
Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA

Lan Zhang
Clemson University, USA

Weizhi Meng
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark