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In this letter, we study the secure communication problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled networks aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) from the physical-layer security perspective. Specifically, the IRS is deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Meihui Hua

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , M. Mahdi Azari , William Melek , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

This paper investigates the three-dimensional (3D) deployment of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations in heterogeneous communication networks under constraints imposed by diverse ground obstacles. Given the diverse data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Senning Wan , Bin Li , Hongbin Chen , Lei Liu

Laser power has become a viable solution to provide convenient and sustainable energy supply to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, we study a laser-powered UAV wireless communication system, where a laser transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Jie Ouyang , Yueling Che , Jie Xu , Kaishun Wu

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a UAV is dispatched as a mobile access point (AP) to serve a set of ground users periodically. The UAV employs the radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication employing UAVs as relay nodes to increase the throughput between a pair of transmitter and receiver. We focus on developing effective methods to position the UAV(s)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

This paper analyses the security performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system with integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). We consider a multiple-antenna UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yonghui Li , Yi Ai , Ning Wei

This article addresses the visual area coverage problem using a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs are assumed to be equipped with a downward facing camera covering all points of interest within a circle on the ground. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Sotiris Papatheodorou , Anthony Tzes , Yiannis Stergiopoulos

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance in realizing heterogeneous practical wireless application scenarios. However, the densely populated users and diverse services with high data rate demands has triggered an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Rui Ding , Fuhui Zhou , Yuhang Wu , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over line-of-sight (LoS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Wenqian Huang , Dong Min Kim , Wenrui Ding , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates an average secrecy rate (ASR) maximization problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication system, wherein a UAV is employed to deliver confidential information to a ground destination in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Motivated by diverse secure requirements of multi-user in UAV systems, we propose a collaborative secret and covert transmission method for multi-antenna ground users to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Specifically, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Jinpeng Xu , Lin Bai , Xin Xie , Lin Zhou

Low Probability of Detection (LPD) communication aims to obscure the presence of radio frequency (RF) signals to evade surveillance. In the context of mobile surveillance utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), achieving LPD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Sivaram Krishnan , Jihong Park , Gregory Sherman , Benjamin Campbell , Jinho Choi

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Qingqing Wu , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we study the trajectory and resource optimization for lightweight rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. The UAV's mission is to perform SAR imaging of a given area…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Walid Ghanem , Christina Knill , Robert Schober

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

In this paper, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with directional antennas acting as wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the downlink coverage probability for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) mobility provides an ideal platform for implementing aerial movable antenna (AMA) system enabled by UAV swarm cooperation. Besides, AMA system is readily to achieve an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haiquan Lu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Long Shi , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang