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In this paper, we investigate joint resource allocation and trajectory design for multi-user multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). To improve sensing accuracy, the UAV is forced to…

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In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled MEC platform that serves multiple mobile ground users with random movements and task arrivals. We aim to minimize the average weighted energy consumption of all users subject to the average UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Zheyuan Yang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to be extensively employed for assisting wireless communications in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, terahertz (THz) enabled intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become key enablers in relay-assisted wireless communications thanks to their flexibility and line-of-sight channel advantage. However, most existing trajectory optimization frameworks assume ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haoyang Di , Xiaodong Zhu , Yulin Shao

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled emergency communication system, which establishes temporary communication link with users equipment (UEs) in a typical disaster environment with mountainous forest and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hongying Guo , Li Wang , Ruoguang Li , Luyang Hou , Lianming Xu , Aiguo Fei

In this paper, we study the trajectory design for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with given initial and final locations, while communicating with the ground base stations (GBSs) along its flight. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a new scenario of spectrum sharing between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication, in which a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary receiver (SR), in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) mobility provides an ideal platform for implementing aerial movable antenna (AMA) system enabled by UAV swarm cooperation. Besides, AMA system is readily to achieve an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haiquan Lu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Long Shi , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Fluid antenna (FA) has become a highly promising technology and has recently been used to enhance the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. However, the scenario where sensing targets act as eavesdroppers in ISAC and how to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yunxiao Li , Qian Zhang , Xuejun Cheng , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaoyan Wang , Hongji Xu , Ju Liu

This letter investigates the joint sensing problem between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and base stations (BS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with fluid antennas (FA). In this system, the BS enhances its sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Xingtao Yang , Zhenghe Guo , Siyun Liang , Zhaohui Yang , Chen Zhu , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communication system with energy harvesting, where the UAV transfers energy to the users in half duplex or full duplex, and the users harvest energy for data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, directional modulation (DM) is adopted to improve the secrecy rate (SR) performance. Alice, a ground base station, behaves as a control center, and Bob is a UAV of flying along a linear flight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Feng Shu , Zaoyu Lu , Jinyong Lin , Linlin Sun , Xiaobo Zhou , Tingting Liu , Shuo Zhang , Wenlong Cai , Jinhui Lu , Jin Wang

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 paper, we investigate an integrated sensing-and-communication (ISAC) network enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV is supposed to fly along a periodical circular trajectory at a fixed height for ISAC service supply…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiaopeng Yuan , Peng Wu , Xinran Wang , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based aerial base stations (BSs) can provide rapid communication services to ground users and are thus promising for future communication systems. In this paper, we consider a scenario where no functional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

This paper develops an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployment scheme in the context of the directional modulation-based secure precise wireless transmissions (SPWTs), where the optimal UAV position for the SPWT is derived to maximum the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Tong Shen , Guiyang Xia , Jingjing Ye , Lichuan Gu , Xiaobo Zhou , Feng Shu

In this letter, we analyze the secrecy performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system with spatially random unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as eavesdroppers. We consider the scenarios where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Lai Wei , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan

In this paper, we investigate beamforming design and trajectory optimization for a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. The proposed system employs multiple UAVs equipped with…

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