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The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the next decade. The effective support of such massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohammad Mozaffari , Xingqin Lin , Stephen Hayes

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in a plethora of applications such as shipping, surveillance, and search-and-rescue. For UAVs to operate safely, reliable cellular connectivity is essential. Utilizing the terrestrial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Nesrine Cherif , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of popularity in diverse wireless communication fields. They can act as high-altitude flying relays to support communications between ground nodes due to their ability to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Hakim Ghazzai , Mahdi Ben Ghorbel , Andreas Kassler , Md. Jahangir Hossain

The consumer UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) market has grown significantly over the past few years. Despite its huge potential in spurring economic growth by supporting various applications, the increase of consumer UAVs poses potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Amir Alipour-Fanid , Monireh Dabaghchian , Ning Wang , Pu Wang , Liang Zhao , Kai Zeng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly utilized in various civilian and military applications such as remote sensing, border patrolling, disaster monitoring, and communication coverage extension. However, there are still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Mahsa Keshavarz , Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Afghah , Jonathan Ashdown

Reliable and direct communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could facilitate autonomous flight, collision avoidance, and cooperation in UAV swarms. In this paper, we consider UAV-to-UAV (U2U) communications underlaying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 M. Mahdi Azari , Giovanni Geraci , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered as one of the promising technologies for the next-generation wireless communication networks. Their mobility and their ability to establish line of sight (LOS) links with the users made them…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) into 6G systems is crucial for achieving seamless global coverage, particularly in underserved and disaster-prone regions. Among NTN platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Ammar El Falou

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have emerged as a viable solution for maritime communications. In these maritime LAWNs, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as practical low-altitude platforms for wireless communications due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawei Huang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Weijie Yuan , Dusit Niyato , Xianbin Wang

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising technology to secure wireless communications by exploiting the physical properties of the wireless channel. However, the passive nature of PLS creates a significant imbalance between the effort…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

Up until now, path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has mainly been focused on the optimisation towards energy efficiency. However, to operate UAVs safely, wireless coverage is of utmost importance. Currently, deployed cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Sibren De Bast , Evgenii Vingradov , Sofie Pollin

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

We explore the additional security obtained by noise at the physical layer in a wiretap channel model setting. Security enhancements at the physical layer have been proposed recently using a secrecy metric based on the degrees of freedom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 W. K. Harrison , J. Almeida , S. W. McLaughlin , J. Barros

Current studies on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based cellular deployment consider UAVs as aerial base stations for air-to-ground communication. However, they analyze UAV coverage radius and altitude interplay while omitting or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Haneya Naeem Qureshi , Ali Imran

Drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are expected to be an important component of 5G/beyond 5G (B5G) communications. This includes their use within cellular architectures (5G UAVs), in which they can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Nozhan Hosseini , Hosseinali Jamal , David W. Matolak , Jamal Haque , Thomas Magesacher

In this work, novel physical layer security (PLS) schemes are proposed for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to secure both data and pilots. The majority of previous studies focus on only securing the data without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Haji M. Furqan , Huseyin Arslan

Security provisioning for low-complex and constrained devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) is exacerbating the concerns for the design of future wireless networks. To unveil the full potential of the sixth generation (6G), it is becoming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio

Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne

In the era of cutting-edge autonomous systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming an essential part of the solutions for numerous complex challenges. This paper evaluates UAV peer-to-peer telemetry communication, highlighting its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pavlo Mykytyn , Marcin Brzozowski , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendörfer

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding