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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Terahertz (THz) technology are envisioned to play paramount roles in next-generation wireless communications. In this paper, we present a novel secure UAV-assisted mobile relaying system operating at THz…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

In this work, we investigate the physical layer security (PLS) of ambient backscatter communication non-orthogonal multiple access (AmBC-NOMA) networks where non-colluding eavesdroppers (Eves) are randomly distributed. In the proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Xinyue Pei , Xingwei Wang , Min Huang , Yingyang Chen , Xiaofan Li , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access setting is considered, in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in two possible scenarios of unsecure environments: existence of an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, we maximize the secrecy rate of the wireless-powered untrusted relay network by jointly designing power splitting (PS) ratio and relay beamforming with the proposed global optimal algorithm (GOA) and local optimal algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Mingxiong Zhao , Suili Feng , Yuan Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Meng Zhang , Hao Fu

This paper investigates the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to assist covert communication between a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a ground user under the surveillance of a passive warden. The UAV simultaneously serves its own…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hung D. Nguyen , Jeongseok Ha

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication scenario that a cluster of UAVs performs a virtual non-uniform linear array (NULA) to communicate with a base station (BS) in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we investigate physical-layer security (PLS) methods for proximity-based group-key establishment and proof of location. Fields of application include secure car-to-car communication, privacy-preserving and secure distance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Pascal Zimmer , Roland Weinreich , Christian T. Zenger , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar

The demand for future wireless communication systems is being satisfied for various circumstances through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which act as flying base stations (BSs). In this letter, we propose an ellipse clustering algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Si-Chan Noh , Hong-Bae Jeon , Chan-Byoung Chae

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

The use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been foreseen as a promising technology for the next generation communication networks. Since there are no regulations for UAVs deployment yet, most likely they form a network in coexistence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Jamming is a form of the Denial of Service (J-DoS) attack. It is a significant threat that causes malfunction in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems, especially when used in hostile environments. The attackers mainly operate in the wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pavlo Mykytyn , Marcin Brzozowski , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have a wide variety of applications, and their development in terms of capabilities is continuously evolving. Many missions performed by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) require flying in public airspace. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ridwane Aissaoui , Jean-Christophe Deneuville , Christophe Guerber , Alain Pirovano

In this paper, we study multibeam satellite secure communication through physical (PHY) layer security techniques, i.e., joint power control and beamforming. By first assuming that the Channel State Information (CSI) is available and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jiang Lei , Zhu Han , M. A. Vázquez-Castro , Are Hjørungnes

This paper investigates the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with movable-antenna (MA) arrays to strengthen security in wireless communication systems. We propose a novel framework that jointly optimizes the UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Sanghyeok Kim , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become essential tools in defense, law enforcement, disaster response, and product delivery. These autonomous navigation systems require a wireless communication network, and of late are deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Vatsal Aggarwal , Arjun Ramesh Kaushik , Charanjit Jutla , Nalini Ratha

In this paper, we study the problem of secure transmission with covert requirement in untrusted relaying networks. Our considered system model consists of one source, one destination, one untrusted relay, and one Willie. The untrusted relay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Ali Kuhestani

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly deployed in vast low-altitude applications, owing to their capabilities in distributed sensing, flexible communication, and autonomous coordination. Nevertheless, the open and highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuntao Wang , Haojia Yang , Han Liu , Jianle Ba , Zhou Su

This paper investigates the downlink (DL) physical layer security (PLS) in a near-field (NF) extra-large multiple-input multiple-output MIMO (XL-MIMO) system. To enhance the secrecy rate (SR), null-space artificial noise (AN) is transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiangjun Ma , Ali Arshad Nasir , Daniel Benevides da Costa