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Recent technological advancements have seen the integration of unmanned aerial networks (UAVs) into various sectors, from civilian missions to military operations. In this context, ensuring security, precisely authentication, is essential…

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It has been considered that urban air mobility (UAM), also known as drone-taxi or electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), will play a key role in future transportation. By putting UAM into practical future transportation, several…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Chanyoung Park , Soohyun Park , Gyu Seon Kim , Soyi Jung , Jae-Hyun Kim , Joongheon Kim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yumeng Bai , Yiheng Feng

With the growing need to comply with privacy regulations and respond to user data deletion requests, integrating machine unlearning into IoT-based federated learning has become imperative. Traditional unlearning methods, however, often lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xuhan Zuo , Minghao Wang , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Shui Yu , Wanlei Zhou

We consider a relay system empowered by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that facilitates downlink information delivery while adhering to finite blocklength requirements. The setup involves a remote controller transmitting information to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Atefeh Rezaei , Ata Khalili , Falko Dressler

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technique has been recognized as a promising solution in future wireless connectivity from the sky, and UAV navigation is one of the most significant open research problems, which has attracted wide interest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Hongji Huang , Yuchun Yang , Hong Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Hikmet Sari , Fumiyuki Adachi

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication technology is regarded as an efficient and effective solution for some special application scenarios where existing terrestrial infrastructures are overloaded to provide reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jinjing Wang , Xindi Wang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed transmission control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in unlicensed spectrum bands. We develop a rigorous interference-aware queuing analysis framework that jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Masoud Ghazikor , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

Traditional machine learning algorithms use data from databases that are mutable, and therefore the data cannot be fully trusted. Also, the machine learning process is difficult to automate. This paper proposes building a trustable machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Tao Wang

In this paper, we propose a framework for fast trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our framework is reformulated from an existing bilevel optimization, in which the lower-level problem solves for the optimal trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qianzhong Chen , Sheng Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications has drawn significant interest recently due to many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. This paper addresses the issue of physical-layer security in a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

Wireless networks consisting of low SWaP, FW-UAVs are used in many applications, such as monitoring, search and surveillance of inaccessible areas. A decentralized and autonomous approach ensures robustness to failures; the UAVs explore and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shivam Garg , Alexander Ihler , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Sunil Kumar

Deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks to provide coverage for outdoor users has attracted great attention during the last decade. However, outdoor coverage is challenging due to the high mobility of crowds and the diverse terrain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zhengying Lou , Ruibo Wang , Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided secure communication system is conceived and investigated, where the UAV transmits legitimate information to a ground user in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). To guarantee the security, the UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Kaidi Xu , Ming-Min Zhao , Yunlong Cai , Lajos Hanzo

We present a resilient deep neural network (DNN) framework for decentralized transport and coverage using uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) operating in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The proposed DNN-based mass-transport architecture constructs a layered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed , Hossein Rastgoftar

In this work, a delay-tolerant unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relayed covert and secure communication framework is investigated. In this framework, a legitimate UAV serves as an aerial relay to realize communication when the direct link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiacheng Jiang , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This work presents an online learning-based control method for improved trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles using both deep learning and expert knowledge. The proposed method does not require the exact model of the system to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Andriy Sarabakha , Erdal Kayacan

Runtime assurance (RTA) addresses the problem of keeping an autonomous system safe while using an untrusted (or experimental) controller. This can be done via logic that explicitly switches between the untrusted controller and a safety…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kristina Miller , Christopher K. Zeitler , William Shen , Mahesh Viswanathan , Sayan Mitra

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert