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Abstract
Sixth Generation (6G) wireless networks, which are expected to be deployed in
the 2030s, have already created great excitement in academia and the private
sector with their extremely high communication speed and low latency rates.
However, despite the ultra-low latency, high throughput, and AI-assisted
orchestration capabilities they promise, they are vulnerable to stealthy and
long-term Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Large Language Models (LLMs)
stand out as an ideal candidate to fill this gap with their high success in
semantic reasoning and threat intelligence. In this paper, we present a
comprehensive systematic review and taxonomy study for LLM-assisted APT
detection in 6G networks. We address five research questions, namely, semantic
merging of fragmented logs, encrypted traffic analysis, edge distribution
constraints, dataset/modeling techniques, and reproducibility trends, by
leveraging most recent studies on the intersection of LLMs, APTs, and 6G
wireless networks. We identify open challenges such as explainability gaps,
data scarcity, edge hardware limitations, and the need for real-time
slicing-aware adaptation by presenting various taxonomies such as granularity,
deployment models, and kill chain stages. We then conclude the paper by
providing several research gaps in 6G infrastructures for future researchers.
To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first comprehensive systematic
review and classification study on LLM-based APT detection in 6G networks.