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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

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) computing and networking are becoming a fundamental computation infrastructure for diverse cyber-physical application systems. UAVs can be empowered by AI on edge devices and can communicate with other UAVs and…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qingyang Zhang , Mohammad Dwipa Furqan , Tasfia Nutzhat , Fumio Machida , Ermeson Andrade

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

This paper considers grid formation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm for maximizing the secrecy rate in the presence of an unknown eavesdropper. In particular, the UAV swarm performs coordinated beamforming onto the null space of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer from sensor drifts in GPS denied environments, which can lead to potentially dangerous situations. To avoid intolerable sensor drifts in the presence of GPS spoofing attacks, we propose a safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Lui Sha , Petros G. Voulgaris

The real-time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) trajectory design of secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is optimized. In particular, the UAV serves both as a downlink transmitter and a radar receiver. The legitimate user (Bob)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Lajos Hanzo

In this work uses innovative multi-channel load-sensing techniques to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance. The research aims to improve the quality of data transmission methods and improve the efficiency and reliability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Raja Vavekanand , Kira Sam , Vijay Singh

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are becoming increasingly popular for various applications. Freely flying drones create highly dynamic environments, where conventional routing algorithms which rely on stationary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Mehrdad Khaledi , Arnau Rovira-Sugranes , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi

Over-the-air computation has the potential to increase the communication-efficiency of data-dependent distributed wireless systems, but is vulnerable to eavesdropping. We consider over-the-air computation over block-fading additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a novel means of extracting road and traffic information from video data. In particular, by analyzing objects in a video frame, UAVs can detect traffic characteristics and road incidents. Leveraging…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-06 Cesar N. Yahia , Shannon E. Scott , Stephen D. Boyles , Christian G. Claudel

Security provisioning for low-complex and constrained devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) is exacerbating the concerns for the design of future wireless networks. To unveil the full potential of the sixth generation (6G), it is becoming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio

As an autonomous vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are subjected to several challenges. One of the challenges is for UAV to be able to avoid collision. Many collision avoidance methods have been proposed to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ahmad H. Sawalmeh , Noor Shamsiah Othman

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely exploited in environment monitoring, search-and-rescue, etc. However, the mobility and short flight duration of UAVs bring challenges for UAV networking. In this paper, we study the UAV networks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Zhiyong Feng , Haibo Zhou , Li Wang , Huici Wu

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohammed Jouhari , Abdulla Al-Ali , Emna Baccour , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani , Mounir Hamdi

We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) represent a promising architecture that integrates unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial nodes to provide enhanced coverage, reliability, and throughput for diverse applications. However, these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahui Li , Xinyue Liang , Geng Sun , Hui Kang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Abbas Jamalipour