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In this paper we consider a collection of single-antenna ground nodes communicating with a multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over a multiple-access ground-to-air wireless communications link. The UAV uses beamforming to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Feng Jiang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Secure communication is crucial in many emerging systems enabled by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks. To protect legitimate communication in a chaotic UAV environment, where both eavesdropping and jamming become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Junjie Wang , Fang Fang , Gangtao Han , Ning Wang , Xianbin Wang

This letter investigates secure hybrid beamforming (HB) design for an extremely large-scale antenna array-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system operating in a mixed near-field (NF)/far-field (FF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yaqian Yi , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Changsheng You , Qingqing Wu

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

We study physical-layer security in wireless ad hoc networks and investigate two types of multi-antenna transmission schemes for providing secrecy enhancements. To establish secure transmission against malicious eavesdroppers, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

A Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channel in which the eavesdropper and legitimate receiver are equipped with arbitrary numbers of antennas and the transmitter has two antennas is studied in this paper. Under an average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Mojtaba Vaezi , Wonjae Shin , H. Vincent Poor

Hybrid digital/analog architecture and low-resolution analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog converters (ADCs /DACs) are two low-cost implementations for large-scale millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Ziyang Cheng , Linlong Wu , Bowen Wang , Julan Xie , Huiyong Li

This paper proposes a robust beamforming scheme to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of multicast transmission in a cognitive satellite and aerial network (CSAN) operating in the millimeter wave frequency band. Based on imperfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Bai Zhao , Min Lin , Ming Cheng , Wei-Ping Zhu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We derive the optimal signaling for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) full-duplex two-way channel under the imperfect transmit front-end chain. We characterize the two-way rates of the channel by using a game-theoretical approach,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Shuqiao Jia , Behnaam Aazhang

The problem of secure communication in Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay networks with multiple eavesdroppers is considered. Assuming that a receiver (destination or eavesdropper) can decode a message only if the received SNR is above a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Siddhartha Sarma , Samar Agnihotri , Joy Kuri

In order to address the asynchronous interference issue for a generalized scenario with multiple primary and multiple secondary receivers, in this paper, we propose an innovative cooperative beamforming technique. In particular, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-09 Mai H. Hassan , Md. J. Hossain

This paper studies the coordinated beamforming design problem for the multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel, assuming only channel distribution information (CDI) at the transmitters. Under a given requirement on the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei-Chiang Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Che Lin , Chong-Yung Chi

Airborne mobile Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) base stations have garnered significant attention recently, with ISAC technology being a crucial application for 6G networks. Since ISAC can sense potential mobile communication…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shengcai Zhou , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Kai Kit Wong , Dapeng Oliver Wu , Chan-Byoung Chae

In the development of wireless communication technology, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has emerged as a key enabler, significantly enhancing the capacity of communication systems. However, traditional MIMO systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Ruojing Zhao , Yifei Xu , Songjie Yang , Hua Chen , Chadi Assi

Sensor-aided beamforming reduces the overheads associated with beam training in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. Most prior work, though, neglects the challenges associated with establishing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Robert W. Heath

The millimeter wave (mmWave) technology enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to offer broadband high-speed wireless connectivity in fifth generation (5G) and beyond (6G) networks. However, the limited footprint of a single UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yang Wang , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

The space communications industry is challenged to develop a technology that can deliver broadband services to user terminals equipped with miniature antennas, such as handheld devices. One potential solution to establish links with ground…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) hybrid analog-digital beamforming is a promising approach to satisfy the low-latency constraint in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) systems, which serve as network infrastructure for flexible deployment.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Hsiao-Lan Chiang , Kwang-Cheng Chen , Wolfgang Rave , Mostafa Khalili Marandi , Gerhard Fettweis

This paper studies the beamforming design problem of a multi-user downlink network, assuming imperfect channel state information known to the base station. In this scenario, the base station is equipped with multiple antennas, and each user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Pu Zhao , Meng Zhang , Hui Yu , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen

This work studies near-field secure communications through transmit beamfocusing. We examine the benefit of having a protected eavesdropper-free zone around the legitimate receiver, and we determine the worst-case secrecy performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Salman Durrani , A. Lee Swindlehurst