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The communication system is a critical part of the system design for the autonomous UAV. It has to address different considerations, including efficiency, reliability and mobility of the UAV. In addition, a multi-UAV system requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Liping Shi , Néstor J. Hernández Marcano , Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

The rapid growth of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for civil and commercial missions has intensified concerns about their resilience to cyber-security threats. Operating within the emerging UAS Traffic Management (UTM) framework,…

This paper introduces a secure communication architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground stations in 5G networks, addressing critical challenges in network security. The proposed solution integrates the Advanced Encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Taneya Sharma , Seyed Ahmad Soleymani , Mohammad Shojafar , Rahim Tafazolli

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly deployed in vast low-altitude applications, owing to their capabilities in distributed sensing, flexible communication, and autonomous coordination. Nevertheless, the open and highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuntao Wang , Haojia Yang , Han Liu , Jianle Ba , Zhou Su

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication scenario that a cluster of UAVs performs a virtual non-uniform linear array (NULA) to communicate with a base station (BS) in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Wei Zhang

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a concept for creating an airborne transportation system that operates in urban settings with an on-board pilot and/or remote pilot in command (RPIC), or with a fully autonomous architecture. Although the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 M. Cenk Erturk , Nozhan Hosseini , Hosseinali Jamal , Alphan Sahin , David Matolak , Jamal Haque

In this paper, we provide a performance analysis for practical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled networks. By considering both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions between aerial base stations (BSs) and ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chang Liu , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Qingzhi Li , Zihuai Lin , Ying-Chang Liang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important new class of users in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular networks. In particular, there are emerging UAV applications such as aerial photograph and data relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Rapid advancements in field robots have brought a new kind of cyber physical system (CPS)--unmanned robotic system--under the spotlight. In the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) era, these systems hold great potential to replace humans in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Xinran Fang , Chengleyang Lei , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Ming Xiao , Ning Ge , Chengxiang Wang

Many wireless communications systems found in aircraft lack standard security mechanisms, leaving them fundamentally vulnerable to attack. With affordable software-defined radios available, a novel threat has emerged, allowing a wide range…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Matthew Smith , Martin Strohmeier , Jon Harman , Vincent Lenders , Ivan Martinovic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in multiple fields, which emphasizes the challenge of obtaining UAV flight information to ensure the airspace safety. UAVs equipped with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Ziye Jia , Yiyang Liao , Chao Dong , Lijun He , Qihui Wu , Lei Zhang

We develop a comprehensive framework to characterize and optimize the performance of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted D2D network, where D2D transmissions underlay cellular transmissions. Different from conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Mehdi Monemi , Hina Tabassum

The proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) embedded with vulnerable monolithic software has recently raised serious concerns about their security due to concurrency aspects and fragile communication links. However, verifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Omar M. Alhawi , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Employing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) is an endearing and challenging task. While UAS have the potential to significantly enhance today's logistics and emergency response capabilities, unmanned flying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Simon Kohaut , Benedict Flade , Devendra Singh Dhami , Julian Eggert , Kristian Kersting

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has gained interest in wireless networks for its many uses and advantages such as rapid deployment and multi-purpose functionality. This is why wide deployment of UAVs has the potential to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-26 Mohamed Y. Selim , Ahmad Alsharoa , Ahmed E. Kamal

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an important role in air-ground integration network. Especially in Internet of Things (IoT) services, UAV equipped with communication equipments is widely adopted as a mobile base station (BS) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Bin Li , Xianzhen Guo , Ruonan Zhang , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are remote-controlled vehicles capable of flight and are present in a variety of environments from military operations to domestic enjoyment. These vehicles are great assets, but just as their pilot can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-05 David Rudo , Kai Zeng

The emerging low-altitude economy has catalyzed the large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), driving a paradigm shift in environment monitoring, logistics, and emergency response. However, operating within these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianhao Liang , Nanchi Su , Yuqi Ping , Guangyu Lei , Xinglin Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often referred to as drones, have been experiencing healthy growth in the United States and around the world. The positive uses of UAS have the potential to save lives,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Jian Wang , Yongxin Liu , Houbing Song

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous sensing applications, which are expected to add billions of dollars to the world economy in the next decade. To further improve the Quality-of-Service (QoS) in such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Fanyi Wu , Hongliang Zhang , Jianjun Wu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor