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In this paper, we study the trajectory and resource allocation design for downlink energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems, where an information UAV assisted by a multi-antenna jammer UAV serves multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) represent a promising architecture that integrates unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial nodes to provide enhanced coverage, reliability, and throughput for diverse applications. However, these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahui Li , Xinyue Liang , Geng Sun , Hui Kang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Abbas Jamalipour

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Because wireless communication is dynamic and has inherent defects, routing algorithms are crucial in the quickly evolving field of mobile ad hoc networks, or MANETs This study looks at the many security problems that MANETs encounter.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Soundes Oumaima Boufaida , Abdemadjid Benmachiche , Majda Maatallah , Chaouki Chemam

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are evolving as adaptable platforms for a wide range of applications such as precise inspections, emergency response, and remote sensing. Autonomous UAV swarms require efficient and stable communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Randolf Rotta , Pavlo Mykytyn

UAV swarms are widely used in emergency communications, area monitoring, and disaster relief. Coordinated by control centers, they are ideal for federated learning (FL) frameworks. However, current UAV-assisted FL methods primarily focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yubo Yang , Tao Yang , Xiaofeng Wu , Ziyu Guo , Bo Hu

As an increasing amount of research is being done on various applications of sensor networks in adversarial environments, ensuring secure routing becomes of critical importance for the success of such deployments. The problem of designing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Minko Dudev , Sebastian Gerling , Philip Peter

This paper presents a thorough survey of recent work addressing energy efficient multicast routing protocols and secure multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). There are so many issues and solutions which witness the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Busola S. Olagbegi , Natarajan Meghanathan

Natural disasters often damage ground infrastructure, making unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) essential for emergency supply delivery. Yet safe operation in complex post-disaster environments requires reliable command-and-control (C2) links;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ping Huang , Bin Duo , Ziedor Godfred , Liuwei Huo , Jin Ning , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Li

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of autonomous nodes that communicate with each other by forming a multi-hop radio network and maintaining connections in a decentralized manner. Security remains a major challenge for these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Jaydip Sen

The engineering vision of relying on the ``smart sky" for supporting air traffic and the ``Internet above the clouds" for in-flight entertainment has become imperative for the future aircraft industry. Aeronautical ad hoc Networking (AANET)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jiankang Zhang , Taihai Chen , Shida Zhong , Jingjing Wang , Wenbo Zhang , Xin Zuo , Robert G. Maunder , Lajos Hanzo

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of applications requiring extensive communications, either to interconnect the UAVs with each other or with ground resources. Focusing either on the modeling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Sabur Baidya , Zoheb Shaikh , Marco Levorato

Energy efficiency is an important performance measure of wireless network protocols, especially for battery-powered mobile devices such as smartphones. This paper presents a new energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) scheme for fully…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 K. Rahimi Malekshan , W. Zhuang , Y. Lostanlen

The nature of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) makes them suitable to be utilized in the context of an extreme emergency for all involved rescue teams. We use the term emergency MANETs (eMANETs) in order to describe next generation IP-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Emmanouil A. Panaousis , Tipu A. Ramrekha , Grant P. Millar , Christos Politis

Enhancing the routing efficacy of Flying AdHoc Networks (FANETs), a network of numerous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in which various challenges may arise as a result of the varied mobility, speed, direction, and rapid topology changes.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ch. Naveen Kumar Reddy , M. Anusha

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Emergency communication is vital for search and rescue operations following natural disasters. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can significantly assist emergency communication by agile positioning, maintaining connectivity during rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Sharvari N P , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

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,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Hao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wang , Qihui Wu , Chau Yuen

Mobile agent networks, such as multi-UAV systems, are constrained by limited resources. In particular, limited energy affects system performance directly, such as system lifetime. It has been demonstrated in the wireless sensor network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Mason Thammawichai , Sujit P. Baliyarasimhuni , Eric C. Kerrigan , João B. Sousa

This technical report describes GrADyS-SIM, a framework for simulating cooperating swarms of UAVs in joint mission in hypothetical landscape and communicating through RF radios. The framework was created to aid and verify the communication,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Thiago Lamenza , Marcelo Paulon , Breno Perricone , Bruno Olivieri , Markus Endler