Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have received growing popularity in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) which often deploys many sensors in a relatively wide region. Current trends focus on deployment of a single UAV or a swarm of it to generally...
With the rapid advancement of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, UAV swarm technology is being increasingly applied with autonomous control, intelligent collaboration, and flexible deployment. It exhibits tremendous potential in em...
Driven by the rapidly growing demand for information security, covert wireless communication has become an essential technology and attracted tremendous attention. However, traditional wireless covert communication is continuously exposing the inhere...
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant popularity and have been extensively utilized in wireless communications. Due to the susceptibility of wireless channels to eavesdropping, interference and other security attacks, UAV...
In the development of beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems, communication between the UAVs and the ground control station (GCS) is of critical importance. The commonly used economical wireless modules are restricted by th...
With the development of wireless communication technology, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are now widely used in many complex communication scenarios. When a UAV serves as an aerial base station for urban and rural ground users or marine users, it is...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are integral to the development of smart city infrastructures, enabling essential services such as real-time surveillance, urban traffic regulation, and cooperative environmental monitoring. UAV-to-UAV communication ne...
In anticipation of wide implementation of 5G technologies, the scarcity of spectrum resources for the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communication remains one of the major challenges in arranging safe drone operations. Dynamic spectrum management am...
Multi-agent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teaming becomes an essential part in science mission, modern warfare surveillance, and disaster rescuing. This paper proposes a decentralized UAV swarm persistent monitoring strategy in realizing continuous s...
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) communication with severe loss always leads to performance degradation in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) payload communication. In this paper, a UAV NLOS communication scheme based on single-carrier frequency domain equalizati...
Since the communication link of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its reliability evaluation represent an arduous field, we have concentrated our work on this topic. The demand regarding the validity and reliability of the communication and data l...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in wireless communication systems due to their flexible mobility and high maneuverability. The combination of UAVs and mobile edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology to provide high-q...
In recent years, with the widespread application of UAV swarm, the security problems faced have been gradually discovered, such as the lack of reliable identity authentication, which makes UAVs vulnerable to invasion. To solve these security problems...
This paper considers the navigation of a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for securing the communication with an intended ground node in the presence of eavesdroppers in urban environments. To complete this task, the UAV needs to not only...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in the new generation of communication systems. They serve as access points, base stations, relays, and gateways to extend network coverage, enhance connectivity, or offer communications services...
The last era has witnessed an unprecedented demand for digital content. To meet these rigorous demands, researchers have been busy developing content-sharing applications and services. The advancement in technology has aided this process. Unmanned ae...
This paper proposes a novel dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) framework that integrates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications into an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, termed the ISAC-UAV architecture. In this system...
This paper presents a UAV-swarm-communication model using a machine-learning approach for search-and-rescue applications. Firstly, regarding the communication of UAVs, the receive signal strength (RSS) and power loss have been modeled using random fo...
This paper focuses on algorithms and technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networking across different fields of applications. Given the limitations of UAVs in both computations and communications, UAVs usually need algorithms for either l...
Clusters of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often used to perform complex tasks. In such clusters, the reliability of the communication network connecting the UAVs is an essential factor in their collective efficiency. Due to the complex wireless...
As the frequency of natural disasters increases, the study of emergency communication becomes increasingly important. The use of federated learning (FL) in this scenario can facilitate communication collaboration between devices while protecting priv...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can serve as aerial base stations for users due to their flexibility, low cost, and other characteristics. However, due to the high flight position of UAVs, the air-to-ground (ATG) channels usually dominate with line-of...
Networked cooperation of multi-unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) is significant, but their cooperative guidance presents challenges due to weak cross-domain communication. Given the difficulties in information transmission security, this paper proposes a...
A new era of the fifth-generation (5G) networks is realized to satisfy user demands on higher data rate and massive connectivity for information sharing and utilization. The vertical applications such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, in...
With the rapid development of information technology and the increasing application of UAV in various fields, the security problems of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication network have become increasingly prominent. It has become an important...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) used for humanitarian applications require simple, accessible and reliable components. For example, a communication system between UAV and the Ground Control Station (GCS) is essential in order to monitor UAV status; v...
This paper addresses task allocation to multi-UAV systems in time- and communication-constrained environments by presenting an extension to the novel heuristic performance impact (PI) algorithm. The presented algorithm, termed local reassignment perf...
Visible light communication (VLC) aided by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers significant advantages in adapting to dynamic network requirements, but the endurance and service capability of UAVs are still the key limiting factors. To overcome thi...
Communication is the cornerstone of UAV swarms to transmit information and achieve cooperation. However, artificially designed communication protocols usually rely on prior expert knowledge and lack flexibility and adaptability, which may limit the c...
Wildfires are one of the most devastating natural disasters in the world. This study proposes an innovative optical wildfire communication system (OWC) that leverages advanced optical technologies for wildfire monitoring and seamless communication to...
In the future network, the data traffic increases rapidly and users’ communication service needs are diversified. The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in communication effectively relieves the pressure of ground communication equi...
This study deals with the decentralized sampled-data fuzzy tracking control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) considering the communication delay of the feedback signal. A decentralized Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy approach is ado...
With the explosive increase in demand for wireless communication, the issue of wireless communication security has also become a growing concern. In this paper, we investigate a novel covert communication for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted up...
Unmanned aerial vehicle swarms (UAVSs) can carry out numerous tasks such as detection and mapping when outfitted with machine learning (ML) models. However, due to the flying height and mobility of UAVs, it is very difficult to ensure a continuous an...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), relying on wireless communication, are inevitably influenced by the complex electromagnetic environment, attributed to the development of wireless communication technology. The modulation information of signals can as...
In urban environments, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can significantly enhance the performance of wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), enabling reliable communication and efficient energy transfer for urban Internet of Things (IoTs) nod...
This paper considers a wireless-powered communication network (WPCN) system that uses multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Ground users (GUs) first harvest energy from a mobile wireless energy transfer (WET) UAV then use the energy to power thei...
This paper investigates mobile relaying in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN), where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is employed to help information delivery from multiple sources to destination with communication channels severely block...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered an important component of 6G wireless technology. However, there are many challenges to the employment of UAVs, one of which is spectrum scarcity. To address this challenge, non-orthogonal multiple acces...
In the current digital era, where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Everything (IoE) can be well integrated, more global connectivity and automated solutions can be witnessed. This paper aims to develop an...
Backscatter communication is a promising technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) systems with low-energy consumption, in which the data transmission of the backscatter devices relies on reflecting the incident signal. However, limited by the low...
This study proposes a compact, low-profile, four-port dual-band monopole multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems. Each monopole antenna of the array features a modified T-shaped radi...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be employed as low-altitude aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) to provide communication services for ground users (GUs). However, most existing works mainly focus on optimizing coverage and maximizing throughput, witho...
Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems are commonly considered as one of the key enabling technologies for 6G. The hybrid free space optical (FSO)/radio frequency (RF) system has the advantages of both FSO and RF links to impro...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been used in many fields due to its wide applicability. In this kind of network, each node is independent of each other and has its own local clock and communicates wirelessly. Time synchronization plays a vital r...
The intelligent terminals deployed in hydropower IoT can quickly sense the status of hydropower equipment, thus improving the efficiency of system control and operation. However, communication security between the base station and intelligent termina...
The growing interest in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has accelerated the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones for secure data transmission. In this study, the optimization of UAV trajectory and bandwidth allocation...
Multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is a critical technology for the low-altitude economy, supporting applications from logistics to emergency response. Semantic communication effectively enhances transmission efficiency and im...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been regarded as a promising means to reshape future wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider how to plan the trajectory of a solar-powered UAV under a cloudy condition to secure the communicatio...
Communication using millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz bands between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a crucial technology for the realization of non-terrestrial networks envisioned for Beyond 5G. While these frequency bands offer remarkably hi...
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