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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

The problem of quality of service (QoS) and jamming-aware communications is considered in an adversarial wireless network subject to external eavesdropping and jamming attacks. To ensure robust communication against jamming, an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Nof Abuzainab , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi , Sharon J. Mackey , Mitesh Patel , Frank Panettieri , Muhammad A. Qureshi , Volkan Isler , Aylin Yener

Conventional anti-jamming method mostly rely on frequency hopping to hide or escape from jammer. These approaches are not efficient in terms of bandwidth usage and can also result in a high probability of jamming. Different from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

This paper addresses the increasing significance of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and the emergence of UAV swarms for collaborative operations in various domains. However, the effectiveness of UAV swarms can be severely compromised by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Haechan Jeong

As underwater human activities are increasing, the demand for underwater communication service presents a significant challenge. Existing underwater diver communication methods face hurdles due to inherent disadvantages and complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tinglong Deng , Hang Tao , Xinxiang Wang , Yinyan Wang , Hanjiang Luo

Providing quality communications under adversarial electronic attacks, e.g., broadband jamming attacks, is a challenging task. Unlike state-of-the-art approaches which treat jamming signals as destructive interference, this paper presents a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jianhui Ma , Qiang Li , Zilong Liu , Linsong Du , Hongyang Chen , Nirwan Ansari

Modern communication systems need to fulfill multiple and often conflicting objectives at the same time. In particular, new applications require high reliability while operating at low transmit powers. Moreover, reliability constraints may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

With the advent of intelligent jammers, jamming attacks have become a more severe threat to the performance of wireless systems. An intelligent jammer is able to change its policy to minimize the probability of being traced by legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

This article proposes a cooperative friendly jamming framework for swarm unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying networks with wireless energy harvesting. Due to the limited energy of the UAVs, we develop a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Hanh Dang-Ngoc , Diep N. Nguyen , Khuong Ho-Van , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Quoc-Viet Pham , Won-Joo Hwang

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites can be used to assist maritime wireless communications for wide-area data transmission. However, the extensive coverage of LEO satellites, combined with the openness of channels, can cause the communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawei Huang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

The choice of the transmitting frequency to provide cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) reliable connectivity and mobility support introduce several challenges. Conventional sub-6 GHz networks are optimized for ground Users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Gianluca Fontanesi , Anding Zhu , Hamed Ahmadi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-unmanned aerial vehicles' scheduling for cooperative jamming, where UAVs equipped with directional antennas perform collaborative jamming tasks against several targets of interest. To ensure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Yixin Jiang , Lingyun Zhou , Yijia Tang , Ya Tu , Chunhong Liu , Qingjiang Shi

Suitably equipped with cameras and sensors, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be instrumental for wildfire prediction, tracking, and monitoring, provided that uninterrupted connectivity can be guaranteed even if some of the ground access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Carles Diaz-Vilor , Angel Lozano , Hamid Jafarkhani

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ground users, and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled data collection system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist in the communication from a cluster of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to a UAV in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zhi Ji , Jia Tu , Xinrong Guan , Wendong Yang , Weiwei Yang , Qingqing Wu

A cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)faces several key challenges concerning connectivity and energy efficiency. Through a learning-based strategy, we propose a general novel multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithm to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 M. Mahdi Azari , Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , Fernando Rosas

This paper addresses the challenge of anti-jamming in moving reactive jamming scenarios. The moving reactive jammer initiates high-power tracking jamming upon detecting any transmission activity, and when unable to detect a signal, resorts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yangyang Li , Yuhua Xu , Wen Li , Guoxin Li , Zhibing Feng , Songyi Liu , Jiatao Du , Xinran Li