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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms represent a key advancement in autonomous systems, enabling coordinated missions through inter-UAV communication. However, their reliance on wireless links makes them vulnerable to jamming, which can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Miguel Lourenço , António Grilo

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a self-configure network of sensor nodes communicate among themselves using radio signals and deployed in quantity to sense, monitor and to understand the physical world. A jammer is an entity which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Manojkumar. M. K , Sathya. D

In 5G and beyond networks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are an attractive solution to enhance the secrecy of a wireless systems by exploiting their predominant LOS links and spacial manoeuvrability to introduce a friendly jamming. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 X. A. Flores Cabezas , D. P. Moya Osorio , M. Latva-aho

Jamming attacks target a wireless network creating an unwanted denial of service. 5G is vulnerable to these attacks despite its resilience prompted by the use of millimeter wave bands. Over the last decade, several types of jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Youness Arjoune , Fatima Salahdine , Md. Shoriful Islam , Elias Ghribi , Naima Kaabouch

In this work, we investigate the impact of two cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based jammers on the secrecy performance of a ground wireless network in the presence of an eavesdropper. For that purpose, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-30 X. A. Flores Cabezas , D. P. Moya Osorio , M. Latva-aho

This paper presents a new cooperative jamming approach to secure the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication by leveraging jamming from other nearby UAVs to defend against the eavesdropping. In particular, we consider a two-UAV scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Canhui Zhong , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Smart jammer nodes can disrupt communication between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless network, and they leave traces that are undetectable to classical jammer identification techniques, hidden in the time-frequency plane. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Ozan Alp Topal , Selen Gecgel , Ender Mete Eksioglu , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle communications are encountering increasingly severe multi-source interference challenges in dynamic adversarial environments, which impose higher demands on their reliability and resilience. To address these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Jingpu Yang , Mingxuan Cui , Hang Zhang , Fengxian Ji , Zhengzhao Lai , Yufeng Wang

To enhance both the sensing and covert communication performance, a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided scheme is proposed for integrated sensing and communication networks, in which one UAV maneuvers as the aerial dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingke Sun , Liang Yang , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

With the advent of intelligent jammers, jamming attacks have become a more severe threat to the performance of wireless systems. An intelligent jammer is able to change its policy to minimize the probability of being traced by legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have brought a new true revolution to military tactics. While UAVs already constitute an advantage when operating alone, multi-UAV swarms expand the available possibilities, allowing the UAVs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tiago Silva , António Grilo

The spectrum share and open nature of wireless channels enable integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) susceptible to hostile jamming attacks. Due to the intrinsic orthogonality and rich azimuth angle information of orbital angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Liping Liang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Zhuohui Yao

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing high data rates for next-generation communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Yuan-ai Xie , Yanyu Cheng , Jiawen Kang , Dong In Kim

Wireless links are increasingly used to deliver critical services, while intentional interference (jamming) remains a very serious threat to such services. In this paper, we are concerned with the design and evaluation of a universal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hai N. Nguyen , Guevara Noubir

In this paper, we analyze the impact of a friendly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) jammer on UAV communications in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. We first present channel components determined by the line-of-sight (LoS) probability…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Minsu Kim , Seongjun Kim , Jemin Lee

This paper proposes a hierarchical trajectory planning framework for UAVs operating under adversarial jamming conditions. Leveraging Bayesian Active Inference, the approach combines expert-generated demonstrations with probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ali Krayani , Seyedeh Fatemeh Sadati , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

In this paper, the multi-target tracking (MTT) with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is investigated in the presence of jammers, where UAVs in the swarm communicate with each other to exchange information of targets during tracking.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Lanhua Xiang , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks and Internet of Things (IoT) are being considered as integral components of current and next-generation wireless networks. In particular, UAVs can provide IoT devices with seamless connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we propose a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication and sensing (SCS) scheme for an air-to-ground integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a dual-functional source UAV and jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Libiao Lou , Yuan Liu , Fotis Foukalas , Hongjiang Lei , Gaofeng Pan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-satellite communication has drawn dramatic attention for its potential to build the integrated space-air-ground network and the seamless wide-area coverage. The key challenge to UAV-satellite communication is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jianwei Zhao , Feifei Gao , Qihui Wu , Shi Jin , Yi Wu , Weimin Jia