Security analysis of drones systems: Attacks, limitations, and recommendations

JP Yaacoub, H Noura, O Salman, A Chehab - Internet of Things, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, the world witnessed a significant increase in the number of used drones, with a
global and continuous rise in the demand for their multi-purpose applications. The pervasive …

A vision and framework for the high altitude platform station (HAPS) networks of the future

GK Kurt, MG Khoshkholgh, S Alfattani… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) is a network node that operates in the stratosphere
at an of altitude around 20 km and is instrumental for providing communication services …

A survey on 5G millimeter wave communications for UAV-assisted wireless networks

L Zhang, H Zhao, S Hou, Z Zhao, H Xu, X Wu… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received considerable attention from
regulators, industry and research community, due to rapid growth in a broad range of …

Improving physical layer security via a UAV friendly jammer for unknown eavesdropper location

Y Zhou, PL Yeoh, H Chen, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this correspondence paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped
with an air-to-ground friendly jammer assisting secure communications between a legitimate …

Secrecy and covert communications against UAV surveillance via multi-hop networks

HM Wang, Y Zhang, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for surveillance and monitoring gives
rise to the confidential information leakage challenge in both civilian and military …

Security threats and mitigation techniques in UAV communications: A comprehensive survey

GK Pandey, DS Gurjar, HH Nguyen, S Yadav - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been instrumental in enabling many new
applications and services, including military and rescue operations, aerial surveillance …

Power-efficient communication in UAV-aided wireless sensor networks

M Hua, Y Wang, Z Zhang, C Li… - IEEE Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates a power-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless
sensor network, where the UAV is used as a flying base station to communicate with the …

Secure UAV-to-UAV systems with spatially random UAVs

J Ye, C Zhang, H Lei, G Pan… - IEEE Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we investigate the secrecy performance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-
to-UAV system, where a UAV acts as the source () transmitting information to a legitimate …

UAV-involved wireless physical-layer secure communications: Overview and research directions

HM Wang, X Zhang, JC Jiang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to their flexible deployment and on-demand mobility, small-scale unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be involved in widespread communication applications in …

Detection of eavesdropping attack in UAV-aided wireless systems: Unsupervised learning with one-class SVM and k-means clustering

TM Hoang, NM Nguyen… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wireless relaying system in the presence of an active eavesdropper is considered. The
system is assumed to use an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a relay and the uplink …