UAV-Assisted Downlink-and-Uplink Communication in the Presence of Multiple Malicious Jammers

Zhiyu Huang; Zhichao Sheng; Ali A. Nasir; Cheng Yin; Antonino Masaracchia

doi:10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118771

UAV-Assisted Downlink-and-Uplink Communication in the Presence of Multiple Malicious Jammers

Zhiyu Huang^*, Zhichao Sheng, Ali A. Nasir, Cheng Yin, Antonino Masaracchia

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Abstract

This paper investigates the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication network with multiple downlink users (DLUs) and uplink users (ULUs) in the presence of multiple malicious jammers. To guarantee fairness among the users and their uplink and downlink communication throughput, we aim to maximize the minimum average throughput by jointly optimizing the scheduling of ULUs/DLUs, three dimensional (3D) trajectory and the UAV transmission power. Although the optimization problem is computationally intractable due to its non-convexity, we develop an iterative algorithm based on the block coordinate descend approach and the successive convex approximation technique to solve the problem efficiently. Numerical outcomes show that our proposed algorithm can improve throughput significantly over several benchmark schemes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665491228
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118771
State	Published - 2023
Event	2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Mar 2023 → 29 Mar 2023

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Name	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
Volume	2023-March
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511

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Conference	2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	26/03/23 → 29/03/23

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Keywords

UAV communication
downlink-and-uplink
malicious jammer
trajectory design

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General Engineering

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Huang, Z., Sheng, Z., Nasir, A. A., Yin, C., & Masaracchia, A. (2023). UAV-Assisted Downlink-and-Uplink Communication in the Presence of Multiple Malicious Jammers. In 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023 - Proceedings (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 2023-March). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118771

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Huang, Z, Sheng, Z, Nasir, AA, Yin, C & Masaracchia, A 2023, UAV-Assisted Downlink-and-Uplink Communication in the Presence of Multiple Malicious Jammers. in 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023 - Proceedings. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, vol. 2023-March, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 26/03/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118771

UAV-Assisted Downlink-and-Uplink Communication in the Presence of Multiple Malicious Jammers. / Huang, Zhiyu; Sheng, Zhichao; Nasir, Ali A. et al.
2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 2023-March).

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UAV-Assisted Downlink-and-Uplink Communication in the Presence of Multiple Malicious Jammers

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