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Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often referred to as drones, have been experiencing healthy growth in the United States and around the world. The positive uses of UAS have the potential to save lives,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Jian Wang , Yongxin Liu , Houbing Song

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon be omnipresent and billions of sensors and actuators will support our industries and well-being. IoT devices are embedded systems that are connected using wireless technology for most of the cases. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Bodong Shang , Vuk Marojevic , Lingjia Liu

Due to its agile maneuverability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great promise for ondemand communications. In practice, UAV-aided aerial base stations are not separate. Instead, they rely on existing satellites/terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xiangling Li , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Ning Ge

With the growing use of underwater acoustic communications (UWAC) for both industrial and military operations, there is a need to ensure communication security. A particular challenge is represented by underwater acoustic networks (UWANs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Roee Diamant , Paolo Casari , Stefano Tomasin

Thanks to the rapidly developing technology, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are able to complete a number of tasks in cooperation with each other without need for human intervention. In recent years, UAVs, which are widely utilized in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ozlem Ceviz , Sevil Sen , Pinar Sadioglu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles autonomously perform tasks with the use of state-of-the-art control algorithms. These control algorithms rely on the freshness and correctness of sensor readings. Incorrect control actions lead to catastrophic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alessandro Erba , John H. Castellanos , Sahil Sihag , Saman Zonouz , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Due to the frequent unauthorized access by commercial drones to Critical Infrastructures (CIs) such as airports and oil refineries, the US-based Federal Avionics Administration (FAA) recently published a new specification, namely RemoteID.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti , Savio Sciancalepore

Mysterious sightings of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) over U.S. military facilities, suburban neighborhoods, and commercial airports have intensified scrutiny of drone activity. To increase accountability, the Federal Aviation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jason Veara , Manav Jain , Kyle Moy , Aanjhan Ranganathan

Supporting reliable and seamless wireless connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has recently become a critical requirement to enable various different use cases of UAVs. Due to their widespread deployment footprint, cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-05 Sung Joon Maeng , Yavuz Yapıcı , İsmail Güvenç , Arupjyoti Bhuyan , Huaiyu Dai

This work focuses on analyzing the vulnerability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to stealthy black-box false data injection attacks on GPS measurements. We assume that the quadcopter is equipped with IMU and GPS sensors, and an arbitrary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Amir Khazraei , Haocheng Meng , Miroslav Pajic

Drones have been widely used in various services, such as delivery and surveillance. Authentication forms the foundation of the security of these services. However, drones are expensive and may carry important payloads. To avoid being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chuxiong Wu , Qiang Zeng

In this paper, we investigate the integration of drone identification data (Remote ID) with collision avoidance mechanisms to improve the safety and efficiency of multi-drone operations. We introduce an improved Near Mid-Air Collision…

The Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) sector is fast-expanding. Protection of real-time UAV applications against malicious attacks has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved. Denial-of-service (DoS) attack aims to exhaust system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jiyang Chen , Zhiwei Feng , Jen-Yang Wen , Bo Liu , Lui Sha

This paper delves into the time-efficient covert multicast in a wireless communication system facilitated by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), in which the UAV aims to disseminate a common covert information to multiple ground users (GUs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Wenhao Zhang , Ji He , Yuanyu Zhang

To enhance both the sensing and covert communication performance, a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided scheme is proposed for integrated sensing and communication networks, in which one UAV maneuvers as the aerial dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingke Sun , Liang Yang , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to establish flexible and reliable emergency networks in disaster sites when terrestrial communication infrastructures go down. Nevertheless, potential security threats may occur on UAVs…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Qichao Xu , Ruidong Li , Tom H. Luan , Pinghui Wang

The rapid growth of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for civil and commercial missions has intensified concerns about their resilience to cyber-security threats. Operating within the emerging UAS Traffic Management (UTM) framework,…

In this correspondence, we study the physical layer security in a stochastic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) network from a network-wide perspective, where the locations of UAVs are modeled as a Mat$\acute{\text{e}}$rn hard-core point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiawei Lyu , Hui-Ming Wang

Increased utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in critical operations necessitates secure and reliable communication with Ground Control Stations (GCS). This paper introduces Aero-LLM, a framework integrating multiple Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Balakrishnan Dharmalingam , Rajdeep Mukherjee , Brett Piggott , Guohuan Feng , Anyi Liu