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This paper evaluates the feasibility of using light fidelity with multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for indoor collaborative and cooperative networking. A number of works have presentedchallenges for wireless networking with multiple…

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being integrated into next-generation networks to enhance communication coverage and network capacity. However, the dynamic and mobile nature of UAVs poses significant security challenges,…

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This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) secure communication system with integrated sensing and communications. We consider wireless security enhancement for a multiple-antenna UAV transmitting ISAC waveforms to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yi Ai , Yonghui Li , Ning Wei

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have emerged as a viable solution for maritime communications. In these maritime LAWNs, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as practical low-altitude platforms for wireless communications due to…

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While unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible mobility are envisioned to enhance physical layer security in wireless communications, the efficient security design that adapts to such high network dynamics is rather challenging. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Xiao Tang , Kexin Zhao , Chao Shen , Qinghe Du , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

In the 21st century, the industry of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has witnessed a rapid increase with its large number of airspace users. The tremendous benefits of this technology in civilian applications such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yassine Mekdad , Ahmet Aris , Leonardo Babun , Abdeslam EL Fergougui , Mauro Conti , Riccardo Lazzeretti , A. Selcuk Uluagac

This paper studies the exploitation of networked integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) to support low-altitude economy (LAE), in which a set of networked ground base stations (GBSs) transmit wireless signals to cooperatively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Gaoyuan Cheng , Xianxin Song , Zhonghao Lyu , Jie Xu

Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs), composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and mobile terminals, are emerging as a critical extension of 6G. However, applying Large Language Models in LAWNs faces three major challenges: 1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Li Dong , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Dong In Kim , Ekram Hossain

Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling technologies for UAVs, wireless communication is essential and has drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-15 Yong Zeng , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for wireless communications has rapidly grown into a research hotspot as the mass production of high-performance, low-cost, intelligent UAVs become more practical and feasible. In the meantime, fifth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Wei Xu , Marvin Yuen

Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Chunjie Wang , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

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) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

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

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

The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the next decade. The effective support of such massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohammad Mozaffari , Xingqin Lin , Stephen Hayes

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations to provide communication service for remote mobile users due to their high mobility and flexible deployment. However, the line-of-sight (LoS) wireless links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Yawei Lu , H. Vincent Poor , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

The paper considers physical layer security (PLS) of an untrusted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network, where a multitude of UAVs communicate in full-duplex (FD) mode. A source-based jamming (SBJ) scheme is exploited for secure…

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