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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are indispensable for infrastructure inspection, surveillance, and related tasks, yet they also introduce critical security challenges. This survey provides a wide-ranging examination of the anti-UAV domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Sanjian Zhang , Guangyu Chen , Yuzhi Hu , Masumi Yano , Jingdong Sun , Siyu Huang , Feng Liu , Qi Dai , Zhi-Qi Cheng

Unlike aerial base station enabled by a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), aerial coordinated multiple points (CoMP) can be enabled by a UAV swarm. In this case, the management of multiple UAVs is important. This paper considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xuanxuan Wang , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

Wireless relays can effectively extend the transmission range of information. However, if relay technology is utilized unlawfully, it can amplify potential harm. Effectively surveilling illegitimate relay links poses a challenging problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Qian Dan , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Weijia Lei , Gaofeng Pan

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

Wireless communication networks have been witnessing an unprecedented demand due to the increasing number of connected devices and emerging bandwidth-hungry applications. Albeit many competent technologies for capacity enhancement purposes,…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is becoming increasingly used in a variety of applications such as video surveillance and deliveries. To enable safe and efficient use of UAVs, the devices will need to be connected into cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Boris Galkin , Erika Fonseca , Gavin Lee , Conor Duff , Marvin Kelly , Edward Emmanuel , Ivana Dusparic

Service providers are considering the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance wireless connectivity of cellular networks. To provide connectivity, UAVs have to be backhauled through terrestrial base stations (BSs) to the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Nour Kouzayha , Hesham ElSawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Khlod Alshaikh , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Nowadays there is a growing research interest on the possibility of enriching small flying robots with autonomous sensing and online navigation capabilities. This will enable a large number of applications spanning from remote surveillance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled aerial communication provides a flexible, reliable, and cost-effective solution for a range of wireless applications. However, due to the high line-of-sight (LoS) probability, aerial communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Shuang Liang , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be powerful Internet-of-Things components to execute sensing tasks over the next-generation cellular networks, which are generally referred to as the cellular Internet of UAVs. However, due to the high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Unlike terrestrial communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have some advantages such as the line-of-sight (LoS) environment and flexible mobility. However, the interference will be still inevitable. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Minsu Kim , Jemin Lee

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has gained interest in wireless networks for its many uses and advantages such as rapid deployment and multi-purpose functionality. This is why wide deployment of UAVs has the potential to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-26 Mohamed Y. Selim , Ahmad Alsharoa , Ahmed E. Kamal

The usage of beamforming in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has the potential of significantly improving the air-to-ground link quality. This paper presents the outcome of experimental trial of such a UAV-based beamforming system over live…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Tomasz Izydorczyk , Michel Massanet Ginard , Simon Svendsen , Gilberto Berardinelli , Preben Mogensen

Aerial-ground interference mitigation has been deemed as the main challenge in realizing cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Due to the line-of-sight (LoS)-dominant air-ground channels, the UAV generates/suffers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Nowadays, companies such as Amazon, Alibaba, and even pizza chains are pushing forward to use drones, also called UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), for service provision, such as package and food delivery. As governments intend to use these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Matthias R. Brust , Grégoire Danoy , Pascal Bouvry , Dren Gashi , Himadri Pathak , Mike P. Gonçalves

Current studies on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based cellular deployment consider UAVs as aerial base stations for air-to-ground communication. However, they analyze UAV coverage radius and altitude interplay while omitting or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Haneya Naeem Qureshi , Ali Imran

By means of network densification, ultra dense networks (UDNs) can efficiently broaden the network coverage and enhance the system throughput. In parallel, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communications and networking have attracted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Haichao Wang , Guoru Ding , Feifei Gao , Jin Chen , Jinlong Wang , Le Wang

When users exchange data with Unmanned Aerial vehicles - (UAVs) over air-to-ground (A2G) wireless communication networks, they expose the link to attacks that could increase packet loss and might disrupt connectivity. For example, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Luis Miguel Campos , Pedro Sebastiao , Katerina Koutlia , Sandra Lagen , Luis Bernardo , Rui Dinis

Natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes immensely impact the telecommunication network infrastructure, leading to the malfunctioning and interruption of wireless services. Consequently, the user devices under the disaster zone are…