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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

UAV-based wireless systems, such as wireless relay and remote sensing, have attracted great attentions from academia and industry. To realize them, a high-performance wireless aerial communication system, which bridges UAVs and ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Tao Yu , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

Command and control of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is often realized through air-to-ground (A2G) remote control (RC) links that operate in ISM bands. While wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology is commonly used for UAV RC links,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Donggu Lee , Sung Joon Maeng , Ozgur Ozdemir , Mani Bharathi Pandian , Ismail Guvenc

The integration of air and ground smart vehicles is becoming a new paradigm of future transportation. A decent number of smart unmanned vehicles or UAS will be sharing the national airspace for various purposes, such as express delivery,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yongxin Liu , Jian Wang , Yingjie Chen , Shuteng Niu , Zhihan Lv , Lei Wu , Dahai Liu , Houbing Song

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will inevitably be integrated into future cellular networks as new aerial mobile users. Providing cellular connectivity to UAVs will enable a myriad of applications ranging from online…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ursula Challita , Aidin Ferdowsi , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

The use of supervised learning with various sensing techniques such as audio, visual imaging, thermal sensing, RADAR, and radio frequency (RF) have been widely applied in the detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in an environment.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Olusiji O Medaiyese , Martins Ezuma , Adrian P Lauf , Ismail Guvenc

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

Multi-agent collaboration enhances situational awareness in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Ad hoc networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allow for real-time data sharing, but they face security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 R. Spencer Hallyburton , Miroslav Pajic

Cross-view UAV geolocalization is fundamentally a challenging large-scale image retrieval task, aiming to determine the geographic coordinates of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) queries by matching them against an extensive geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bowen Liu , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Derong Xu , Jiawei Cheng , Jiancheng Dong , Xiao Han , Zimo Zhao , Chao Zhang , Bowen Yu , Fangyu Hong , Xiangyu Zhao

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depend on untrusted software components to automate dangerous or critical missions, making them a desirable target for attacks. Some work has been done to prevent an attacker who has either compromised a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Arthur Amorim , Max Taylor , Trevor Kann , Gary T. Leavens , William L. Harrison , Lance Joneckis

Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important component of the upcoming wireless networks that can potentially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Bin Li , Zesong Fei , Yan Zhang

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

Assignment of critical missions to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is bound to widen the grounds for adversarial intentions in the cyber domain, potentially ranging from disruption of command and control links to capture and use of airborne…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Vahid Behzadan

This paper proposes an integrated sensing, navigation, and communication (ISNC) framework for safeguarding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless networks against a mobile eavesdropping UAV (E-UAV). To cope with the mobility of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhiqiang Wei , Fan Liu , Chang Liu , Zai Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), an emerging architecture that embodies flying ad-hoc networks, face critical privacy and security challenges, mainly when engaged in data-sensitive missions. Therefore, message authentication is a crucial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Sana Hafeez , Mahmoud A. Shawky , Mohammad Al-Quraan , Lina Mohjazi , Muhammad Ali Imran , Yao Sun

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

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

With the advancement in drone technology, in just a few years, drones will be assisting humans in every domain. But there are many challenges to be tackled, communication being the chief one. This paper aims at providing insights into the…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been undergoing fast development for providing broader signal coverage and more extensive surveillance capabilities in military and civilian applications. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jinchuan Tang , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

This paper presents a new cooperative jamming approach to secure the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication by leveraging jamming from other nearby UAVs to defend against the eavesdropping. In particular, we consider a two-UAV scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Canhui Zhong , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu