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In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, directional modulation (DM) is adopted to improve the secrecy rate (SR) performance. Alice, a ground base station, behaves as a control center, and Bob is a UAV of flying along a linear flight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Feng Shu , Zaoyu Lu , Jinyong Lin , Linlin Sun , Xiaobo Zhou , Tingting Liu , Shuo Zhang , Wenlong Cai , Jinhui Lu , Jin Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications has drawn significant interest recently due to many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. This paper addresses the issue of physical-layer security in a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (BSs) are able to provide not only the communication service to ground users, but also the sensing functionality to localize targets of interests. In this paper, we consider an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Xiaoye Jing , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Yong Zeng

By fully exploiting the mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-based aerial base stations (BSs) can move closer to ground users to achieve better communication conditions. In this paper, we consider a scenario where an aerial BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to provide wireless connectivity for ground users (GUs) in various emergency scenarios. However, it is a NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangbin Lyu , Xu Chen , Jiefeng Zhang , Liqun Fu

We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication employing UAVs as relay nodes to increase the throughput between a pair of transmitter and receiver. We focus on developing effective methods to position the UAV(s)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

This paper proposes a robust beamforming scheme to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of multicast transmission in a cognitive satellite and aerial network (CSAN) operating in the millimeter wave frequency band. Based on imperfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Bai Zhao , Min Lin , Ming Cheng , Wei-Ping Zhu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links are prone to severe deterioration by complex propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sixian Li , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Marco Di Renzo

Simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) offer a transformative approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, particularly for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Rakesh Ranjan , Anshu Mukherjee , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Keshav Singh , Ioannis Krikidis

Modern day wireless networks have tremendously evolved driven by a sharp increase in user demands, continuously requesting more data and services. This puts significant strain on infrastructure based macro cellular networks due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vishal Sharma , Mehdi Bennis , Rajesh Kumar

In modern cell-less wireless networks, mobility management is undergoing a significant transformation, transitioning from single-link handover management to a more adaptable multi-connectivity cluster reconfiguration approach, including…

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Fast and reliable connectivity is essential to enhancing situational awareness and operational efficiency for public safety mission-critical (MC) users. In emergency or disaster circumstances, where existing cellular network coverage and…

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This paper presents an autonomous sensing framework for identifying and localizing multiple users in Fifth Generation (5G) cooperative networks using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that is not part of the serving access network. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Niccolò Paglierani , Francesco Linsalata , Vineeth Teeda , Davide Scazzoli , Maurizio Magarini

Unmanned aerial vehicles serving as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to ground devices in events of increased network demand, points-of-failure in existing infrastructure, or disasters.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

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

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

Network slicing is a well assessed approach enabling virtualization of the mobile core and radio access network (RAN) in the emerging 5th Generation New Radio. Slicing is of paramount importance when dealing with the emerging and diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lorenzo Bellone , Boris Galkin , Emiliano Traversi , Enrico Natalizio

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system equipped with movable antenna (MA) arrays. To align with practical scenarios, we simulate the dynamic roaming of…

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