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Secure communication is crucial in many emerging systems enabled by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks. To protect legitimate communication in a chaotic UAV environment, where both eavesdropping and jamming become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Junjie Wang , Fang Fang , Gangtao Han , Ning Wang , Xianbin Wang

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communications system, including two cooperative UAVs, a wireless-powered ground destination node leveraging simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized numerous application fields since their introduction. Alongside this, advancements in mechanics and electronics have simplified and decreased the cost of system design. As a consequence,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Tanay Kumar , Mangal Kothari

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

To support large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, cellular-connected UAV, has recently received an upsurge of interests in both academia and industry.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

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

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise (AN), as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hong Niu , Yue Xiao , Xia Lei , Jiangong Chen , Zhihan Xiao , Mao Li , Chau Yuen

Data at the physical layer transmits via media such as copper cable, fiber optic, or wireless. Physical attack vectors exist that challenge data confidentiality and availability. Protocols and encryption standards help obfuscate but often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Alon Hillel-Tuch

UAV-based wireless systems, such as wireless relay and remote sensing, have attracted great attentions from academia and industry. To realize them, a high-performance wireless aerial communication system, which bridges UAVs and ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Tao Yu , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled cooperative secure transmission scheme in the presence of multiple potential eavesdroppers. Specifically, multiple source UAVs (SUAVs) send confidential information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Yi Wang , Qingqing Wu , Haibo Dai , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and…

Physical layer security is an emerging technique to improve the wireless communication security, which is widely regarded as a complement to cryptographic technologies. To design physical layer security techniques under practical scenarios,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

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

A large spectrum of technologies are collectively dubbed as physical layer security (PLS), ranging from wiretap coding, secret key generation (SKG), authentication using physical unclonable functions (PUFs), localization / RF…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Miroslav Mitev , Thuy M. Pham , Arsenia Chorti , Andre Noll Barreto , Gerhard Fettweis

The communication system is a critical part of the system design for the autonomous UAV. It has to address different considerations, including efficiency, reliability and mobility of the UAV. In addition, a multi-UAV system requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Liping Shi , Néstor J. Hernández Marcano , Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Due to the malicious attacks in wireless networks, physical layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. The research on physical layer security mainly focuses either on the secrecy capacity/achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Dong Wang , Bo Bai , Wenbo Zhao , Zhu Han

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

This paper tackles the fundamental passive eavesdropping problem in modern wireless communications in which the location and the channel state information (CSI) of the attackers are unknown. In this regard, we propose deploying an unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been recognized as a versatile platform for a wide range of services. During the flight, these vehicles must avoid collisions to operate safely. In this way, they demand to keep spatial awareness, i.e.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Agnaldo Batista , Aldri Santos

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as aerial base stations, are a promising solution for providing wireless communications, thanks to their high flexibility and autonomy. Moreover, emerging services, such as extended reality, require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Javad Sabzehali , Vijay K. Shah , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed