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Cellular networks are promising to support effective wireless communications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will help to enable various long-range UAV applications. However, these networks are optimized for terrestrial users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Yang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Lataief

In the finite blocklength scenario, which is suitable for practical applications, a method of maximizing the average effective secrecy rate (AESR) is proposed for a UAV-enabled secure communication by optimizing the UAV's trajectory and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Yuntian Wang , Xiaobo Zhou , Zhihong Zhuang , Linlin Sun , Yuwen Qian , Jinhui Lu , Feng Shu

Due to Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) limitations in processing power and battery lifetime. The tethered UAV (TUAV) offers an attractive approach to answer these shortcomings. Since a tethered connected to UAV is one potential energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Abdu Saif , Kaharudin Dimyati , Kamarul Ariffin Noordin , Nor Shahida MohdShah , S. H. Alsamhi , Qazwan Abdullah

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important new class of users in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular networks. In particular, there are emerging UAV applications such as aerial photograph and data relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication has emerged as a prominent technology for emergency communications (e.g., natural disaster) in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks to enhance the ability of disaster prediction, damage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Dinh-Hieu Tran , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Sumit Gautam , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu , Bjorn Ottersten

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of scenarios and applications. However, their deployment in urban areas poses important technical challenges. One of the most prominent concerns is the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Zoheb Shaikh , Sabur Baidya , Marco Levorato

The next generation of wireless communication systems will integrate terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks targeting to cover the undercovered regions, especially connecting the marine activities. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Muhammad Waseem Akhtar , Nasir Saeed

A main challenge in providing connectivity to the low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through existing cellular network arises due to the increased interference in the network. The increased altitude and favourable propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Y. -P. Eric Wang , Shiwei Gao , Siva Muruganathan , Xingqin Lin

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled radio access network (RAN) with the UAV acting as an aerial platform to communicate with a set of ground users (GUs) in a variety of modes of practical interest, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted a surge of research interest in both academia and industry. To support aerial user equipment (UEs) in the existing cellular networks, one promising approach is to assign a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xuesong Cai , István Z. Kovács , Jeroen Wigard , Rafhael Amorim , Fredrik Tufvesson , Preben E. Mogensen

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous sensing applications, which are expected to add billions of dollars to the world economy in the next decade. To further improve the Quality-of-Service (QoS) in such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Fanyi Wu , Hongliang Zhang , Jianjun Wu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Communication-aware trajectory generation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in urban environments requires simultaneous consideration of vehicle dynamics, wireless communication quality, obstacle avoidance, and onboard energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Prateek Priyaranjan Pradhan , Ketan Rajawat , Mangal Kothari

Autonomous tracking of suspicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by legitimate monitoring UAVs (or monitors) can be crucial to public safety and security. It is non-trivial to optimize the trajectory of a monitor while conceiving its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Abbas Jamalipour , Dean Ta

Aerial base stations (BSs) attached to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) constitute a new paradigm for next-generation cellular communications. However, the flight range and communication capacity of aerial BSs are usually limited due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Lin Xiang , Lei Lei , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Robert Schober

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided jamming technique for enabling physical layer keyless security in scenarios where the exact eavesdropper location is unknown. We assume that the unknown eavesdropper location is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

Air-to-ground (A2G) networks, using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations to serve terrestrial user equipments (UEs), are promising for extending the spatial coverage capability in future communication systems. Coordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yan Li , Deke Guo , Lailong Luo , Minghua Xia

The open nature of wireless communications renders unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications vulnerable to impersonation attacks, under which malicious UAVs can impersonate authorized ones with stolen digital certificates. Traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yong Huang , Ruihao Li , Mingyang Chen , Feiyang Zhao , Dalong Zhang , Wanqing Tu

Wireless communication enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as an appealing technology for many application scenarios in future wireless systems. However, the limited endurance of UAVs greatly hinders the practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Yong Liang Guan , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a secrecy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system with coordinated multi-point (CoMP) reception, in which one UAV sends confidential messages to a set of cooperative ground receivers (GRs), in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular communication is gaining significant interest recently. Although it offers several advantages over terrestrial communication, UAV communication suffers from two main shortcomings. The typical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Osama M. Bushnaq , Mustafa A. Kishk , Abdulkadir Çelik , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri