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Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Terahertz (THz) technology are envisioned to play paramount roles in next-generation wireless communications. In this paper, we present a novel secure UAV-assisted mobile relaying system operating at THz…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing high data rates for next-generation communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Yuan-ai Xie , Yanyu Cheng , Jiawen Kang , Dong In Kim

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuda Chen , Meng Guo

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

This paper proposes a novel cooperative secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided transmission protocol, where a source (Alice) sends confidential information to a destination (Bob) via an energy-constrained UAV-mounted amplify-and-forward…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

This paper investigates the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to assist covert communication between a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a ground user under the surveillance of a passive warden. The UAV simultaneously serves its own…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hung D. Nguyen , Jeongseok Ha

Network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is a common solution to achieve high-rate image transmission. The broadcast nature of these wireless networks makes this communication vulnerable to eavesdropping. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Behrooz Khadem , Salar Mohebalizadeh

UAVNs (unmanned aerial vehicle networks) may become vulnerable to threats and attacks due to their characteristic features such as highly dynamic network topology, open-air wireless environments, and high mobility. Since previous work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Reza Fotohi , Eslam Nazemi , Fereidoon Shams Aliee

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled radio access network (RAN) with the UAV acting as an aerial platform to communicate with a set of ground users (GUs) in a variety of modes of practical interest, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Reliable communication is a fundamental distributed communication abstraction that allows any two nodes of a network to communicate with each other. It is necessary for more powerful communication primitives, such as broadcast and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Rowdy Chotkan , Bart Cox , Vincent Rahli , Jérémie Decouchant

UAVs have the potential to revolutionize urban management and provide valuable services to citizens. They can be deployed across diverse applications, including traffic monitoring, disaster response, environmental monitoring, and numerous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Abdullah Khanfor , Raby Hamadi , Noureddine Lasla , Hakim Ghazzai

With the development of artificial intelligence and self-driving, vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) has become an irreplaceable part of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). However, the traditional network of the ground cannot meet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Caidan Zhao , Mingxian Shi , MinMin Huang , Xiaojiang Du

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access to terrestrial users, regardless of geographical constraints, and will be an important part of future communication systems. In this paper, a multi-user downlink dual-UAVs enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly being used to deliver goods from vendors to customers. To safely conduct these operations at scale, drones are required to broadcast position information as codified in remote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Geoffrey Ding , Alex Berke , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Kwassi H. Degue , Hamsa Balakrishnan , Max Z. Li

Emergency communication is extremely important to aid rescue and search operation in the aftermath of any disaster. In such scenario, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks may be used to complement the damaged cellular networks over large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sharvari N P , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

CCTV-based surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is considered a key technology for security in smart city environments. This paper creates a case where the UAVs with CCTV-cameras fly over the city area for flexible and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Won Joon Yun , Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , David A. Mohaisen , Jae-Hyun Kim

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in multiple fields, which emphasizes the challenge of obtaining UAV flight information to ensure the airspace safety. UAVs equipped with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Ziye Jia , Yiyang Liao , Chao Dong , Lijun He , Qihui Wu , Lei Zhang