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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance in realizing heterogeneous practical wireless application scenarios. However, the densely populated users and diverse services with high data rate demands has triggered an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Rui Ding , Fuhui Zhou , Yuhang Wu , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek

One of the most promising solutions to the problem of limited flight time of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is providing the UAVs with power through laser beams emitted from Laser Beam Directors (LBDs) deployed on the ground. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Wireless systems are of paramount importance for providing ubiquitous data transmission for smart cities. However, due to the broadcasting and openness of wireless channels, such systems face potential security challenges. UAV-assisted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chan Gao , Linying Tian , Dong Zheng

Network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is a common solution to achieve high-rate image transmission. The broadcast nature of these wireless networks makes this communication vulnerable to eavesdropping. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Behrooz Khadem , Salar Mohebalizadeh

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

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have garnered significant attention in the forthcoming 6G networks. In LAWNs, satellites with wide coverage and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible mobility can complement each other to form…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Xiaoyu Sun , Fang Mei , Jingjing Wang , Xiangwang Hou , Daxin Tian , Victor C. M. Leung

This paper investigates a wireless network consisting of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base station (BS), a fully-connected reconfigurable intelligent surface (FC-RIS), and multiple users, where the downlink signal can simultaneously be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Shuying Lin , Yulong Zou , Yuhan Jiang , Libao Yang , Zhe Cui , Le-Nam Tran

In this paper, we examine the physical layer security for cooperative wireless networks with multiple intermediate nodes, where the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol is considered. We propose a new joint relay and jammer selection (JRJS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang , Linghua Zhang , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou

The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

In this paper, we consider the Physical Layer Security(PLS) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based dual-hop system which consists of multiple users, multiple amplify and forward relays, and an eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Waqas Aman , Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu , Tayyaba Jabeen , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed to monitor very large areas without the need for network infrastructure. UAVs communicate with each other during flight and exchange information with each other. However, such communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Maryam Faraji-Biregani , Reza Fotohi

In this letter, we study the secure communication problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled networks aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) from the physical-layer security perspective. Specifically, the IRS is deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Meihui Hua

This paper considers grid formation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm for maximizing the secrecy rate in the presence of an unknown eavesdropper. In particular, the UAV swarm performs coordinated beamforming onto the null space of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

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

In this paper, we propose a two-way secure communication scheme where two transceivers exchange confidential messages via a wireless powered untrusted amplify-and-forward (AF) relay in the presence of an external jammer. We take into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Ali Kuhestani , Kai-Kit Wong

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) has become a crucial enabling technology for 5G and beyond, providing previously unheard-of increases in energy and spectrum efficiency. It is still difficult to guarantee secure communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to combat against eavesdropping. Such a mobile jamming scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 An Li , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

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

This paper jointly optimizes the flying location and wireless communication transmit power for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) conducting covert operations. This is motivated by application scenarios such as military ground surveillance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shihao Yan , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings

In this paper, we propose a self-dependent two-way secure communication where two sources exchange confidential messages via a wireless powered untrusted amplify-and-forward (AF) relay and friendly jammer (FJ). By adopting the time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Abbas Mohammadi , Phee Lep Yeoh , Ali Kuhestani