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Network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is a common solution to achieve high-rate image transmission. The broadcast nature of these wireless networks makes this communication vulnerable to eavesdropping. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Behrooz Khadem , Salar Mohebalizadeh

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access to terrestrial users, regardless of geographical constraints, and will be an important part of future communication systems. In this paper, a multi-user downlink dual-UAVs enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) secure communication system with integrated sensing and communications. We consider wireless security enhancement for a multiple-antenna UAV transmitting ISAC waveforms to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yi Ai , Yonghui Li , Ning Wei

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

This paper considers the secrecy transmission in a large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless network, in which a set of UAVs in the sky transmit confidential information to their respective legitimate receivers on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both UAVs and existing terrestrial users. In this paper, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper presents a new cooperative jamming approach to secure the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication by leveraging jamming from other nearby UAVs to defend against the eavesdropping. In particular, we consider a two-UAV scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Canhui Zhong , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication scenario that a cluster of UAVs performs a virtual non-uniform linear array (NULA) to communicate with a base station (BS) in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Wei Zhang

This paper investigates an average secrecy rate (ASR) maximization problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication system, wherein a UAV is employed to deliver confidential information to a ground destination in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing number of smart devices and infrastructure-free communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shuyan Hu , Qingqing Wu , Xin Wang

Laser power has become a viable solution to provide convenient and sustainable energy supply to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, we study a laser-powered UAV wireless communication system, where a laser transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Jie Ouyang , Yueling Che , Jie Xu , Kaishun Wu

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that serve as aerial base stations is expected to become predominant in the next decade. However, in order for this technology to unfold its full potential it is necessary to develop a fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Kwang-Cheng Chen , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed to enhance the end-to-end performance of wireless communications since the links between UAVs and terrestrial nodes are line-of-sight (LoS) with high probability. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hongjiang Lei , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Jing Jiang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential for improving the performance of wireless communication systems due to their wide coverage and high mobility. In this paper, we study a UAV-enabled data collection system, where a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dingcheng Yang , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have garnered significant attention in the forthcoming 6G networks. In LAWNs, satellites with wide coverage and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible mobility can complement each other to form…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Xiaoyu Sun , Fang Mei , Jingjing Wang , Xiangwang Hou , Daxin Tian , Victor C. M. Leung

We consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). For this setup, we focus on analyzing and comparing the performance of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 M. Mahdi Azari , Giovanni Geraci , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Sofie Pollin

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as enablers for supporting many applications and services, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, temporary network deployment or coverage extension, and security. UAVs are being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Keith Powell , Vuk Marojevic , Giovanni Geraci