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Malicious attacks such as jamming can cause significant disruption or complete denial of service (DoS) to wireless communication protocols. Moreover, jamming devices are getting smarter, making them difficult to detect. Forward error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Furkan Ercan , Kevin Galligan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Medard , David Starobinski , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

We study dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) jamming-aided secure communication networks, in which one UAV delivers confidential data to multiple ground users (GUs), while a cooperative UAV provides protective interference against a ground…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Xinran Wang , Peng Wu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that has recently tackled a lot of interest in both academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Donatella Darsena , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for object detection. However, the existing UAV-based object detection systems are subject to the serious challenge, namely, the finite computation, energy and communication resources, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Xi Song , Lu Yuan , Zhibo Qu , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Rose Qingyang Hu

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 used for object detection. However, the existing UAV-based object detection systems are subject to severe challenges, namely, their limited computation, energy and communication resources, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Xi Song , Fuhui Zhou , Rui Ding , Zhibo Qu , Yihao Li , Qihui Wu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for channel sensing, collaboration, and transmission for networks of Tactical Communication Systems that are facing intrusions from hostile Jammers. Members of the network begin by scanning the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Bryan Gingras , Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum

The consumer UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) market has grown significantly over the past few years. Despite its huge potential in spurring economic growth by supporting various applications, the increase of consumer UAVs poses potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Amir Alipour-Fanid , Monireh Dabaghchian , Ning Wang , Pu Wang , Liang Zhao , Kai Zeng

Satellites are becoming exceedingly critical for communication, making them prime targets for cyber-physical attacks. We consider a rogue satellite in low Earth orbit that jams the uplink communication between another satellite and a ground…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Filippos Fotiadis , Quentin Rommel , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

This paper addresses the challenge of energy-constrained maritime monitoring networks by proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing, communication, powering and backhaul transmission scheme with a tailored…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Yujun Liang , Qian Li , Haochen Liu , Yaoyuan Zhang , Junsheng Mu , Shahid Mumtaz , Sheng Chen

Conventional wireless security assumes wireless communications are rightful and aims to protect them against malicious eavesdropping and jamming attacks. However, emerging infrastructure-free mobile communication networks are likely to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose to use a wireless-powered friendly jammer to enable secure communication between a source node and destination node, in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider a two-phase communication protocol with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wanchun Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Petar Popovski

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Guangyu Lei , Yuqi Ping , Tianhao Liang , Huahao Ding , Tingting Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as relay platforms to assist maritime wireless communications. However, complex channels and multipath effects at sea can adversely affect the quality of UAV transmitted signals. Collaborative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jiawei Huang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato

When users exchange data with Unmanned Aerial vehicles - (UAVs) over air-to-ground (A2G) wireless communication networks, they expose the link to attacks that could increase packet loss and might disrupt connectivity. For example, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Luis Miguel Campos , Pedro Sebastiao , Katerina Koutlia , Sandra Lagen , Luis Bernardo , Rui Dinis

This work presents an experimental performance evaluation of a private 5G airfield network under controlled directional SDR jamming attacks targeting UAV-based UE nodes. Using a QualiPoc Android UE, mounted as a payload on a quadcopter UAV,…

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Wireless communication can be simply subjected to malicious attacks due to its open nature and shared medium. Detecting jamming attacks is the first and necessary step to adopt the anti-jamming strategies. This paper presents novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

Security threats such as jamming and route manipulation can have significant consequences on the performance of modern wireless networks. To increase the efficacy and stealthiness of such threats, a number of extremely challenging,…

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