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Jamming is a form of the Denial of Service (J-DoS) attack. It is a significant threat that causes malfunction in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems, especially when used in hostile environments. The attackers mainly operate in the wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pavlo Mykytyn , Marcin Brzozowski , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer

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 deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

In this paper, we study the trajectory and resource allocation design for downlink energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems, where an information UAV assisted by a multi-antenna jammer UAV serves multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Traditional anti-jamming techniques like spread spectrum, adaptive power/rate control, and cognitive radio, have demonstrated effectiveness in mitigating jamming attacks. However, their robustness against the growing complexity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Abubakar Sani Ali , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat

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

Can an intelligent jammer learn and adapt to unknown environments in an electronic warfare-type scenario? In this paper, we answer this question in the positive, by developing a cognitive jammer that adaptively and optimally disrupts the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-14 SaiDhiraj Amuru , Cem Tekin , Mihaela van der Schaar , R. Michael Buehrer

In this article, we introduce a novel deception strategy which is inspired by the "Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats", one of the most famous military tactics in the history, in order to defeat reactive jamming attacks for low-power IoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Shimin Gong , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

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

This paper explores an emerging wireless Internet-of-things (IoT) architecture based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider a network where a fleet of UAVs at a fixed altitude flies on planned trajectories and IoT devices on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chang-sik Choi , Francois Baccelli , Gustavo de Veciana

Internet of Things (IoT) involves sensors for monitoring and wireless networks for efficient communication. However, resource-constrained IoT devices and limitations in existing wireless technologies hinder its full potential. Integrating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to combat against eavesdropping. Such a mobile jamming scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 An Li , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be applied in many Internet of Things (IoT) systems, e.g., smart farms, as a data collection platform. However, the UAV-IoT wireless channels may be occasionally blocked by trees or high-rise buildings.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Li Dong , Zhibin Liu , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-unmanned aerial vehicles' scheduling for cooperative jamming, where UAVs equipped with directional antennas perform collaborative jamming tasks against several targets of interest. To ensure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Yixin Jiang , Lingyun Zhou , Yijia Tang , Ya Tu , Chunhong Liu , Qingjiang Shi

Conventional anti-jamming methods mainly focus on preventing single jammer attacks with an invariant jamming policy or jamming attacks from multiple jammers with similar jamming policies. These anti-jamming methods are ineffective against a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

This letter proposes anti-jamming strategies based on pilot retransmission for a single user uplink massive MIMO under jamming attack. A jammer is assumed to attack the system both in the training and data transmission phases. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Tan Tai Do , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a ground node (GN) communicate with a UAV assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the presence of a jammer with imperfect location information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhi Ji , Xinrong Guan , Jia Tu , Qingqing Wu , Wendong Yang

This paper studies the problem of mitigating reactive jamming, where a jammer adopts a dynamic policy of selecting channels and sensing thresholds to detect and jam ongoing transmissions. The transmitter-receiver pair learns to avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Sastry Kompella

Due to its scale and largely interconnected nature, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be vulnerable to a number of security threats that range from physical layer attacks to network layer attacks. In this paper, a novel anti-jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Nima Namvar , Walid Saad , Niloofar Bahadori , Brian Kelley