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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained popularity in various fields such as agriculture, emergency response, and search and rescue operations. UAV networks are susceptible to several security threats, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Keiwan Soltani , Federico Corò , Punyasha Chatterjee , Sajal K. Das

This paper considers secure communications for an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) in the presence of an external eavesdropper (Eve). The secrecy performance of CRNs is usually limited by the primary receiver's interference power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Phu X. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Oh-Soon Shin

Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided terrestrial cellular networks is being considered as one of the disruptive technologies that can address the beyond 5G (B5G)/6G requirements. With mobile UAVs, since locations of the serving UAVs and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mohammad Salehi , Ekram Hossain

This letter investigates an uplink power control problem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted wireless communications. We jointly optimize the UAV's flying altitude, antenna beamwidth, UAV's location and ground terminals' allocated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Wei Xu , Ming Chen , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

Effective solutions for intelligent data collection in terrestrial cellular networks are crucial, especially in the context of Internet of Things applications. The limited spectrum and coverage area of terrestrial base stations pose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Abhishek Mondal , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , George C. Alexandropoulos , Azzam Alnahari , Riku Jantti

Unmanned aerial vehicles provide new opportunities for performance improvements in future wireless communications systems. For example, they can act as relays that extend the range of a communication link and improve the capacity. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao

The integration of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology in 6G Internet of Things (IoT) networks faces significant challenges in remote areas and disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yue Chen , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Boxiong Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Cong Liang , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this work, we propose a minimalistic swarm flocking approach for multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our approach allows the swarm to achieve cohesively and aligned flocking (collective motion), in a random direction, without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Thulio Amorim , Tiago Nascimento , Akash Chaudhary , Eliseo Ferrante , Martin Saska

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are evolving as adaptable platforms for a wide range of applications such as precise inspections, emergency response, and remote sensing. Autonomous UAV swarms require efficient and stable communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Randolf Rotta , Pavlo Mykytyn

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions. The main challenges are to control both the relative positions and angles between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hsin-Ai Hung , Hao-Huan Hsu , Teng-Hu Cheng

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) are promising technologies in 5G/6G wireless communications, while there are several challenges about UAV power allocation and scheduling to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Hongyang Pan , Yanheng Liu , Geng Sun , Junsong Fan , Shuang Liang , Chau Yuen

Over the past few years, the use of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in monitoring and remote area surveillance applications has become widespread thanks to the price reduction and the increased capabilities of drones. The drones…

As the demands for immediate and effective responses increase in both civilian and military domains, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms emerge as effective solutions, in which multiple cooperative UAVs can work together to achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Path Planning methods for autonomously controlling swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum due to their operational advantages. An increasing number of scenarios now require autonomous control of multiple UAVs, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Daniel Rivero