articleIEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsJan 18, 2019Closed access

Securing UAV Communications via Joint Trajectory and Power Control

Guangdong University of Technology · National University of Singapore

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Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is anticipated to be widely applied in the forthcoming fifth-generation wireless networks, due to its many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. However, the broadcast and line-of-sight nature of air-to-ground wireless channels give rise to a new challenge on how to realize secure UAV communications with the destined nodes on the ground. This paper aims to tackle this challenge by applying the physical layer security technique. We consider both the downlink and uplink UAV communications with a ground node, namely, UAV-to-ground (U2G) and ground-to-UAV (G2U) communications, respectively, subject to a potential eavesdropper on the…

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Keywords
  • Computer science
  • Transmitter power output
  • Physical layer
  • Telecommunications link
  • Wireless
  • Eavesdropping
  • Channel (broadcasting)
  • Node (physics)
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