UAV-Enabled Covert Wireless Data Collection

• Published in: IEEE journal on selected areas in communications Vol. 39; no. 11; pp. 3348 - 3362
• Main Authors: Zhou, Xiaobo, Yan, Shihao, Shu, Feng, Chen, Riqing, Li, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: artificial noise; Benchmarks; Communication system security; Convexity; covert communication; Data collection; Design optimization; full-duplex; Mixed integer; Noise generation; Optimization; physical layer security; Scheduling; Security; Trajectory; UAV networks; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication; Wireless communications

This work considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks for collecting data covertly from ground users. The full-duplex (FD) UAV intends to gather critical information from a scheduled user (SU) through wireless communication and generate artificial noise (AN) with random transmit power in order...