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The deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms as dynamic communication relays is critical for next-generation tactical networks. However, operating in contested environments requires solving a complex trade-off, including…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Thai Duong Nguyen , Ngoc-Tan Nguyen , Thanh-Dao Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Symeon Chatzinotas

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for surveillance and monitoring gives rise to the confidential information leakage challenge in both civilian and military environments. The security and covert communication problems for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hui-Ming Wang , Yan Zhang , Xu Zhang , Zhetao Li

A system of cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a group of agents interacting with each other and the surrounding environment to achieve a specific task. In contrast with a single UAV, UAV swarms are expected to benefit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Arman Sargolzaei , Alireza Abbaspour , Carl D. Crane

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

This paper investigates covert data transmission within a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over-the-air computation (AirComp) network, where sensors transmit data to the access point (AP) while guaranteeing covertness to the warden…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Quanzhong Li , Jinhong Yuan

In the finite blocklength scenario, which is suitable for practical applications, a method of maximizing the average effective secrecy rate (AESR) is proposed for a UAV-enabled secure communication by optimizing the UAV's trajectory and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Yuntian Wang , Xiaobo Zhou , Zhihong Zhuang , Linlin Sun , Yuwen Qian , Jinhui Lu , Feng Shu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) provides a promising way to support ultrafast aggregation of distributed data. However, its performance cannot be guaranteed in long-distance transmission due to the distortion induced by the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Ting Wang , Wei Chen

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

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided backscatter communication (BackCom) networks, where the UAV is leveraged to help the backscatter device (BD) forward signals to the receiver. Based on the presence or absence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Chunguo Li , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in a cost-effective manner. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Qi Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Weidong Mei , Shiqi Gong , Jie Tang , Chengwen Xing

Low-altitude economy includes the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving ground robots. This paper investigates the 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory and communication optimization for low-altitude air-ground cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Menghao Hu , Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Chiya Zhang , Changyang She , Gaojie Chen , Miaowen Wen

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) empowered covert communication system in the near-field region. Alice covertly transmits messages to Bob with the assistance of the XL-RIS, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jun Liu , Gang Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiangyun Zhou

Secrecy transmission is investigated for a cooperative jamming scheme, where a multi-antenna jam-mer generates artificial noise (AN) to confuse eavesdroppers. Two kinds of eavesdroppers are considered: passive eavesdroppers who only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Jiangbo Si , Zihao Cheng , Zan Li , Julian Cheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This letter studies a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scenario, in which a UAV user communicates with ground base stations (GBSs) in cellular uplink by sharing the spectrum with ground users (GUs). To deal with the severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Peiming Li , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both UAVs and existing terrestrial users. In this paper, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate covert communications in a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) system. Under the RSMA principles, the messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Heng Chang , Hai Yang , Shuobo Xu , Xiyu Pang , Hongwu Liu

This letter studies a wireless system consisting of distributed ground terminals (GTs) communicating with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that serves as a mobile base station (BS). The UAV flies cyclically above the GTs at a fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jiangbin Lyu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

To integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future large-scale deployments, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, the cellular-connected UAV has recently attracted interest. However, the line-of-sight dominant air-to-ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Ismail Guvenc , Walid Saad , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang