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 …

When UAV meets IRS: Expanding air-ground networks via passive reflection

X Pang, M Sheng, N Zhao, J Tang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to their flexibility and mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely
applied in wireless networks. However, UAV communications may suffer from blockage and …

Physical layer security for UAV communications: A comprehensive survey

J Wang, X Wang, R Gao, C Lei, W Feng… - China …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to its high mobility and flexible deployment, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is drawing
unprecedented interest in both military and civil applications to enable agile and ubiquitous …

Joint optimization for secure intelligent reflecting surface assisted UAV networks

S Fang, G Chen, Y Li - IEEE wireless communications letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes a novel secure intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) system, where the UAV sends confidential messages to a legitimate …

Aerial intelligent reflecting surface-enabled terahertz covert communications in beyond-5G Internet of Things

MT Mamaghani, Y Hong - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to be extensively employed for assisting
wireless communications in the Internet of Things (IoT). On the other hand, terahertz (THz) …

Deep-graph-based reinforcement learning for joint cruise control and task offloading for aerial edge Internet of Things (EdgeIoT)

K Li, W Ni, X Yuan, A Noor… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article puts forth an aerial edge Internet of Things (EdgeIoT) system, where an
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is employed as a mobile-edge server to process mission …

Secure 3D mobile UAV relaying for hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks

PK Sharma, DI Kim - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel decode-and-forward (DF)-based secure 3D mobile
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relaying for hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks (HSTNs) in …

Joint optimization of trajectory, propulsion, and thrust powers for covert UAV-on-UAV video tracking and surveillance

S Hu, W Ni, X Wang, A Jamalipour… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous tracking of suspicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by legitimate
monitoring UAVs (or monitors) can be crucial to public safety and security. It is non-trivial to …

Secrecy performance analysis of RIS-aided communication system with randomly flying eavesdroppers

L Wei, K Wang, C Pan… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we analyze the secrecy performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface
(RIS)-aided communication system with spatially random unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Safeguarding UAV IoT communication systems against randomly located eavesdroppers

H Lei, D Wang, KH Park, IS Ansari… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be extensively utilized in various Internet of Things
(IoT) scenarios due to their flexible mobility and rapid on-demand deployment. It becomes …