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The Micro Air Vehicle Link (MAVLink in short) is a communication protocol for unmanned systems (e.g., drones, robots). It specifies a comprehensive set of messages exchanged between unmanned systems and ground stations. This protocol is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Anis Koubaa , Azza Allouch , Maram Alajlan , Yasir Javed , Abdelfettah Belghith , Mohamed Khalgui

We present MAVShield, a novel lightweight cipher designed to secure communications in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using the MAVLink protocol, which by default transmits unencrypted messages between UAVs and Ground Control Stations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Bhavya Dixit , Ananthapadmanabhan A. , Adheeba Thahsin , Saketh Pathak , Gaurav S. Kasbekar , Arnab Maity

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

Standard communication protocols for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), such as MAVLink, lack the capability to enforce the contextual validity of message sequences. Autopilots therefore remain vulnerable to stealthy attacks, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arthur Amorim , Paul Gazzillo , Max Taylor , Lance Joneckis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depend on untrusted software components to automate dangerous or critical missions, making them a desirable target for attacks. Some work has been done to prevent an attacker who has either compromised a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Arthur Amorim , Max Taylor , Trevor Kann , Gary T. Leavens , William L. Harrison , Lance Joneckis

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is anticipated to be widely applied in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, due to its many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this correspondence, we study the physical layer security in a stochastic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) network from a network-wide perspective, where the locations of UAVs are modeled as a Mat$\acute{\text{e}}$rn hard-core point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiawei Lyu , Hui-Ming Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen to constitute promising airborne communication devices as a benefit of their superior channel quality. But UAV-to-ground (U2G) communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping. Hence, we conceive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhong Zheng , Xinyao Wang , Zesong Fei , Qingqing Wu , Bin Li , Lajos Hanzo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations to provide communication service for remote mobile users due to their high mobility and flexible deployment. However, the line-of-sight (LoS) wireless links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Yawei Lu , H. Vincent Poor , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

Unmanned Vehicles (UxVs) are increasingly used in modern military operations for reconnaissance, surveillance, and strike missions, enhancing situational awareness while reducing risk to personnel. Their affordability and rapid deployment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 T. Rebolo , A. Grilo , C. Ribeiro

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where an UAV and a ground user communicate with each other, while an eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Li Sixian , Duo Bin , Marco Di Renzo , Tao Meixia , Yuan Xiaojun

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications has drawn significant interest recently due to many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. This paper addresses the issue of physical-layer security in a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, high-capacity data transmission is of utmost importance for applications such as intelligent transportation, smart cities, and forest monitoring, which rely on the mobility of UAVs to collect and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yingying Zou , Zhiqing Wei , Yanpeng Cui , Xinyi Liu , Zhiyong Feng

This paper discusses the problem of securing the transmissions of multiple ground users against eavesdropping attacks. We propose and optimize the deployment of a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which serves as an aerial relay between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are recognized as a promising candidate for the multi-access edge computing (MEC) in the future sixth generation communication networks. However, the aerial eavesdropping UAVs (EUAVs) pose a significant…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Can Cui , ZIye Jia , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu

In this paper, we propose a maneuverablejamming-aided secure communication and sensing (SCS) scheme for an air-to-ground integrated sensing and communication (A2G-ISAC) system, where a dual-functional source UAV and a maneuverable jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Libiao Lou , Yuan Liu , Fotis Foukalas , Hongjiang Lei , Gaofeng Pan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an important role in air-ground integration network. Especially in Internet of Things (IoT) services, UAV equipped with communication equipments is widely adopted as a mobile base station (BS) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Bin Li , Xianzhen Guo , Ruonan Zhang , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

In this paper, we propose a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication and sensing (SCS) scheme for an air-to-ground integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a dual-functional source UAV and jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Libiao Lou , Yuan Liu , Fotis Foukalas , Hongjiang Lei , Gaofeng Pan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

In this correspondence, we propose an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a full-duplex UAV equipped with uniform planar array (UPA) is adopted as a base station for the multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Chaedam Son , Seongah Jeong
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