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The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

This paper investigates an average secrecy rate (ASR) maximization problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication system, wherein a UAV is employed to deliver confidential information to a ground destination in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

This paper studies a secrecy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system with coordinated multi-point (CoMP) reception, in which one UAV sends confidential messages to a set of cooperative ground receivers (GRs), in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can enhance the performance of cellular networks, due to their high mobility and efficient deployment. In this paper, we present a first study on how the user mobility affects the UAVs' trajectories of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yao Tang , Man Hon Cheung , Tat-Ming Lok

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

This letter proposes a new full-duplex (FD) secrecy communication scheme for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and investigates its optimal design to achieve the maximum energy efficiency (EE) of the UAV. Specifically, the UAV receives the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Bin Duo , Qingqing Wu , Xiaojun Yuan , Rui Zhang

This work considers the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology that enables multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAV) communication systems to provide on-demand services. The main aim of this work is to derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

UAVs are capable of improving the performance of next generation wireless systems. Specifically, UAVs can be exploited as aerial base-stations (UAV-BS) for supporting legitimate ground users in remote uncovered areas or in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hamed Bastami , Hamid Behroozi , Majid Moradikia , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ngand , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for multicarrier (MC) systems employing a solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for providing communication services to multiple downlink users. We study the joint design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dongfang Xu , Linglong Dai , Robert Schober

This paper analyses the security performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system with integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). We consider a multiple-antenna UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yonghui Li , Yi Ai , Ning Wei

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication platforms is of great practical significance in future wireless networks, especially for on-demand deployment in temporary events and emergency situations. Although prior works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation and trajectory design for a multi-user, multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the link capacity between a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Ata Khalili , Atefeh Rezaei , Dongfang Xu , Falko Dressler , Robert Schober

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) secure communication system with integrated sensing and communications. We consider wireless security enhancement for a multiple-antenna UAV transmitting ISAC waveforms to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yi Ai , Yonghui Li , Ning Wei

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicast channel, in which a UAV serves as a mobile transmitter to deliver common information to a set of $K$ ground users. We aim to characterize the capacity of this channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Yundi Wu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, the effective use of flight-time constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations that can provide wireless service to ground users is investigated. In particular, a novel framework for optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

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

In this article, we investigate the content distribution in the hotspot area, whose traffic is offloaded by the combination of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication and edge caching. In cache-enabling UAV-assisted cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yi Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjun Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan