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This paper investigates the robust and secure task transmission and computation scheme in multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, where the UAV is dual-function, i.e., aerial MEC and aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weihao Mao , Ke Xiong , Yang Lu , Pingyi Fan , Zhiguo Ding

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been undergoing fast development for providing broader signal coverage and more extensive surveillance capabilities in military and civilian applications. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jinchuan Tang , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided secure communication system is conceived and investigated, where the UAV transmits legitimate information to a ground user in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). To guarantee the security, the UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Kaidi Xu , Ming-Min Zhao , Yunlong Cai , Lajos Hanzo

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongjiang Lei , Congke Jiang , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed A. Aboulhassan , Sen Zhou , Gaofeng Pan

The proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) embedded with vulnerable monolithic software has recently raised serious concerns about their security due to concurrency aspects and fragile communication links. However, verifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Omar M. Alhawi , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to significantly contribute to the development of new wireless networks that could handle high-speed transmissions and enable wireless broadcasts. When compared to communications that rely on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Mohammed Abuzamak , Hisham Kholidy

Safety and resilience are critical for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We introduce MAVFI, the micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) resilience analysis methodology to assess the effect of silent data corruption (SDC) on UAVs' mission…

Mobile edge computing (MEC) technology can reduce user latency and energy consumption by offloading computationally intensive tasks to the edge servers. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongjiang Lei , Mingxu Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

In this article, we study the problem of air-to-ground ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) for a moving ground user. This is done by controlling multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real time while avoiding inter-UAV…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Won Joon Yun , Byungju Lim , Soyi Jung , Young-Chai Ko , Jihong Park , Joongheon Kim , Mehdi Bennis

Connectivity between ground vehicles can be utilized and expanded to include aerial vehicles for coordinated missions. Using Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication technologies, a communication link can be established between Connected…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Ozgenur Kavas-Torris , Sukru Yaren Gelbal , Mustafa Ridvan Cantas , Bilin Aksun-Guvenc , Levent Guvenc

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be widely deployed in future wireless communications, due to their advantages of high mobility and easy deployment. However, the broadcast nature of air-to-ground line-of-sight wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

UAVs are capable of improving the performance of next generation wireless systems. Specifically, UAVs can be exploited as aerial base-stations (UAV-BS) for supporting legitimate ground users in remote uncovered areas or in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hamed Bastami , Hamid Behroozi , Majid Moradikia , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ngand , Lajos Hanzo

Aerial vehicles (AVs) such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft make aerial passenger transportation a reality in urban environments. However, their communication connectivity is still under research to realize their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Fateme Salehi , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the terrestrial cellular networks is envisioned as one key technology for next-generation wireless communications. In this work, we consider the physical layer security of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Sung Joon Maeng , Yavuz Yapıcı , İsmail Güvenç , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

In the 21st century, the industry of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has witnessed a rapid increase with its large number of airspace users. The tremendous benefits of this technology in civilian applications such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yassine Mekdad , Ahmet Aris , Leonardo Babun , Abdeslam EL Fergougui , Mauro Conti , Riccardo Lazzeretti , A. Selcuk Uluagac

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) represent a promising architecture that integrates unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial nodes to provide enhanced coverage, reliability, and throughput for diverse applications. However, these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahui Li , Xinyue Liang , Geng Sun , Hui Kang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Abbas Jamalipour

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system is vulnerable to the control signal spoofing attack due to the openness of the wireless communications. In this correspondence, a physical layer approach is proposed to combat the control signal spoofing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to establish flexible and reliable emergency networks in disaster sites when terrestrial communication infrastructures go down. Nevertheless, potential security threats may occur on UAVs…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Qichao Xu , Ruidong Li , Tom H. Luan , Pinghui Wang