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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

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongjiang Lei , Congke Jiang , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed A. Aboulhassan , Sen Zhou , Gaofeng Pan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed to enhance the end-to-end performance of wireless communications since the links between UAVs and terrestrial nodes are line-of-sight (LoS) with high probability. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hongjiang Lei , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Jing Jiang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are integral in various sectors like agriculture, surveillance, and logistics, driven by advancements in 5G. However, existing research lacks a comprehensive approach addressing both data freshness and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a ground node (GN) communicate with a UAV assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the presence of a jammer with imperfect location information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhi Ji , Xinrong Guan , Jia Tu , Qingqing Wu , Wendong Yang

In this letter, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist in the transmission from a ground node (GN) to the UAV in the presence of a jammer. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Zhi Ji , Wendong Yang , Xinrong Guan , Xiao Zhao , Guoxin Li , Qingqing Wu

We consider a source-destination pair that can only communicate through an untrusted intermediate relay node. The intermediate node is willing to employ a designated relaying scheme to facilitate reliable communication between the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-16 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is anticipated to be widely applied in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, due to its many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations to provide communication service for remote mobile users due to their high mobility and flexible deployment. However, the line-of-sight (LoS) wireless links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Yawei Lu , H. Vincent Poor , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

Cellular systems are vulnerable to jamming attacks, especially smart jammers that choose their jamming policies such as the jamming channel frequencies and power based on the ongoing communication policies and network states. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Xiaozhen Lu , Liang Xiao , Canhuang Dai , Huaiyu Dai

This paper considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for secure data collection in wireless sensor networks. An eavesdropper (Eve) lurks within the vicinity of the main receiver (Bob) while several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

In this correspondence, we propose an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a full-duplex UAV equipped with uniform planar array (UPA) is adopted as a base station for the multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Chaedam Son , Seongah Jeong

The low detectability and low cost of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allow them to swarm near the radar network for effective jamming. The key to jamming is the reasonable task assignment and resource allocation of UAVs. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ruiqing Han , Tianxian Zhang , Han Zhong , Yuanhang Wang

This letter investigates the secret communication problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the legitimate transmitter transmits an information-bearing signal to the legitimate receiver, and at the same time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Guyue Li , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yongxu Zhu , Shi Jin , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Efficient mobile jamming against eavesdroppers in wireless networks necessitates accurate coordination between mobility and antenna beamforming. We study the coordinated beamforming and control problem for a UAV that carries two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Filippos Fotiadis , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

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

This paper studies the secrecy rate maximization problem of a secure wireless communication system, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The security of the communication link is enhanced through cooperative jamming, with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Kanapathippillai Cumanan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Zhgiuo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

We consider the relaying application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in which UAVs are placed between two transceivers (TRs) to increase the throughput of the system. Instead of studying the placement of UAVs as pursued in existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are recognized with great potential to strengthen wireless security, yet the performance gain largely depends on the deployment location of RISs in the network topology. In this paper, we consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Xiao Tang , Hongliang He , Limeng Dong , Lixin Li , Qinghe Du , Zhu Han

Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are mainly ground-focused; and, as a consequence, the air-to-air channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Alireza Mohammadi , Mehdi Rahmati , Hafiz Malik