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Secure ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) has been recently investigated with the fundamental limits of finite block length (FBL) regime in mind. Analysis has revealed that when eavesdroppers outnumber BS antennas or enjoy a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Mohammad Naseri Tehrani , Shahrokh Farahmand

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing number of smart devices and infrastructure-free communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shuyan Hu , Qingqing Wu , Xin Wang

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

The Cooperative Rate-Splitting (CRS) scheme, proposed evolves from conventional Rate Splitting (RS) and relies on forwarding a portion of the RS message by the relaying users. In terms of secrecy enhancement, it has been shown that CRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hamed Bastami , Majid Moradikia , Hamid Behroozi , Lajos Hanzo

We investigate the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted downlink secure transmission where only the statistical channel of eavesdropper is available. To handle the stochastic ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) maximization problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Chang Tian , Peixi Liu

Unicast communication over a network of $M$-parallel relays in the presence of an eavesdropper is considered. The relay nodes, operating under individual power constraints, amplify and forward the signals received at their inputs. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Siddhartha Sarma , Samar Agnihotri , Joy Kuri

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

It is anticipated that integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), resulting in RIS-assisted UAV networks, will offer improved network connectivity against node failures for the beyond 5G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Shahrokh Valaee

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is a promising technology in future wireless communication networks. UAVs can not only help offload data traffic from ground base stations (GBSs), but also improve the quality of service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yukuan Ji , Zhaohui Yang , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xiaodai Dong

In this work, we address the trajectory optimization of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using free space optical communication (FSOC). Here, we focus on maximizing the flight time of the UAV by considering practical constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Ju-Hyung Lee , Ki-Hong Park , Young-Chai Ko , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability, nonetheless, the limited onboard energy restricts UAVs' application on persistent data collection missions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Rui Wang , Deshi Li , Qingqing Wu , Kaitao Meng , Boning Feng , Lele Cong

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication, where a rotarywing UAV is dispatched to send/collect data to/from multiple ground nodes (GNs). We aim to minimize the total UAV energy consumption, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate joint 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory planning and resource allocation for rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing. To support emerging real-time SAR applications and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Walid R. Ghanem , Christina Bonfert , Robert Schober

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has high flexibility and controllable mobility, therefore it is considered as a promising enabler for future integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). In this paper, we propose a novel adaptable ISAC (AISAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Cailian Deng , Xuming Fang , Xianbin Wang

This paper proposes a novel cooperative secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided transmission protocol, where a source (Alice) sends confidential information to a destination (Bob) via an energy-constrained UAV-mounted amplify-and-forward…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

In this research, a unique approach to provide communication service for terrestrial receivers via using unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled visible light communication is investigated. Specifically, we take into account a unmanned aerial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Lingling Liu , Aimin Wang , Jing Wu , Jiao Lu , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun

A novel movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-aided secure communication system is investigated. Against the full-space eavesdropping, MEs are deployed at the STARS for enhancing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Owing to the vulnerability of relay-assisted and device-to-device (D2D) communications, improving wireless security from a physical layer signal processing perspective is attracting increasing interest. Hence we address the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Jiaxin Yang , Qiang Li , Benoit Champagne , Yulong Zou , Lajos Hanzo

This letter investigates the robust beamforming design for a near-field secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with multiple communication users (CUs) and targets, as well as multiple eavesdroppers. Taking into account…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziqiang CHen , Feng Wang , Guojun Han , Xin Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau