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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…

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In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where multiple multi-purpose UAV base stations are dispatched to provide secure communications to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing research interests in the context of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which UAVs will be exploited as aerial wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Wen Chen , Zhiyong Feng , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is expected to revolutionize the existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system and promise a more flexible joint design. Nevertheless, the existing works on ISAC mainly focus on exploring the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma , Wen Chen , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

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

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs to sense the environment to ensure safe flight, and the sensing accuracy and communication delay performance are two important indicators of safe flight. The strategy of using integrated sensing and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Wangjun Jiang , Ailing Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Meichen Lai , Meichen Lai , Zhiyong Feng , Jianjun Liu

This paper studies the UAV-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which UAVs are dispatched as aerial dual-functional access points (APs) for efficient ISAC. In particular, we consider a scenario with one UAV-AP equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has high flexibility and controllable mobility, therefore it is considered as a promising enabler for future integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). In this paper, we propose a novel adaptable ISAC (AISAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Cailian Deng , Xuming Fang , Xianbin Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are vulnerable to jamming from self-interested users who utilize radio devices for their benefits during UAV transmissions. The vulnerability occurs due to the open nature of air-to-ground (A2G)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Luis Miguel Campos , Pedro Sebastiao , Francisco Cercas , Luis Bernardo , Rui Dinis

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), which allows individual radar and communication systems to share the same spectrum bands, is an emerging and promising technique for alleviating spectrum congestion problems. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Jinjin Chu , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be integrated into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for smart city applications in several ways. Among them, a UAV can be employed as a relay in a "store-carry and forward" fashion by uploading data from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

In this paper, we investigate an integrated sensing-and-communication (ISAC) network enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV is supposed to fly along a periodical circular trajectory at a fixed height for ISAC service supply…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiaopeng Yuan , Peng Wu , Xinran Wang , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

This paper investigates the susceptibility of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems to hostile jamming, focusing on an aerial Reconfigurable Holographic Surface (RHS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Jalal Jalali , Mostafa Darabi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is poised to redefine the landscape of wireless networks by seamlessly combining data transmission and environmental sensing. However, ISAC systems remain susceptible to eavesdropping, especially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Hancheng Zhu , Zongze Li , Yik-Chung Wu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is expected to bring transformative improvement to the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. However, due to shared spectrum resources, it is challenging to achieve a critical trade-off between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma , Wen Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper studies a secure cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which multiple ISAC transmitters collaboratively send confidential information to multiple communication users (CUs) and concurrently conduct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we investigate jamming-resilient UAV path planning strategies for data collection in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, in which the typical UAV can learn the optimal trajectory to elude such jamming attacks. Specifically,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance in realizing heterogeneous practical wireless application scenarios. However, the densely populated users and diverse services with high data rate demands has triggered an…

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