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The rapid advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the evolution toward the sixth generation (6G) have positioned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as critical enablers of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). This work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Haijia Jin , Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui

This paper proposes an integrated sensing, navigation, and communication (ISNC) framework for safeguarding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless networks against a mobile eavesdropping UAV (E-UAV). To cope with the mobility of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhiqiang Wei , Fan Liu , Chang Liu , Zai Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In this paper, we propose a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication and sensing (SCS) scheme for an air-to-ground integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a dual-functional source UAV and jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Libiao Lou , Yuan Liu , Fotis Foukalas , Hongjiang Lei , Gaofeng Pan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

Mobile relaying is emerged as a promising technique to assist wireless communication, driven by the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, we study secure transmission in a four-node (source, destination,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Qian Wang , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

Multi-way and device-to-device (D2D) communications are currently considered for the design of future communication systems. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effectively deployed to extend the communication range of D2D networks. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jaber Kakar , Anas Chaaban , Vuk Marojevic , Aydin Sezgin

This paper studies a secrecy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system with coordinated multi-point (CoMP) reception, in which one UAV sends confidential messages to a set of cooperative ground receivers (GRs), in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

The communication system is a critical part of the system design for the autonomous UAV. It has to address different considerations, including efficiency, reliability and mobility of the UAV. In addition, a multi-UAV system requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Liping Shi , Néstor J. Hernández Marcano , Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

By observing the fact that moving in a straight line is a common flying behavior of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in normal applications, e.g., power line inspections, and air patrols along with highway/streets/borders, in this paper we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Gaofeng Pan , Hongjiang Lei , Jianping An , Shuo Zhang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With the assistance of device-to-device (D2D) communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are anticipated to support widespread applications in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless systems, by providing seamless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 B. Yang , T. Taleb , Z. Wu , L. Ma

In post-disaster scenarios, the rapid deployment of adequate communication infrastructure is essential to support disaster search, rescue, and recovery operations. To achieve this, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Jikang Deng , Hui Zhou , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Given the imperative of 6G networks' ubiquitous connectivity, along with the inherent mobility and cost-effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAVs play a critical role within 6G wireless networks. Despite advancements in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kejie Ni , Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicast channel, in which a UAV serves as a mobile transmitter to deliver common information to a set of $K$ ground users. We aim to characterize the capacity of this channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Yundi Wu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial relays are practically appealing for assisting Internet of Things (IoT) network. In this work, we aim to utilize the UAV swarm to assist the secure communication between the micro base station (MBS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with directional antennas acting as wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the downlink coverage probability for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Motivated by diverse secure requirements of multi-user in UAV systems, we propose a collaborative secret and covert transmission method for multi-antenna ground users to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Specifically, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Jinpeng Xu , Lin Bai , Xin Xie , Lin Zhou

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless coverage to a geographical area, where a flying UAV can be fast deployed to serve as cell site. Existing work on UAV-enabled wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Rui Ding , Fuhui Zhou , Yuhang Wu , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek