TY - JOUR
T1 - Secrecy Analysis of Directional mmWave UAV-Based Links Under Hovering Fluctuations
AU - Althunibat, Saud
AU - Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi
AU - Hasna, Mazen O.
AU - Qaraqe, Khalid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology have paved the way to their utilization in different fields and applications. Among these applications, UAVs have been widely investigated as a good candidate to serve as mobile base-stations that can provide prompt and temporary coverage of wireless connectivity for specific areas. Recent studies that address different UAVs’ performance aspect lack of considering more practical channel models. Therefore, in this paper, based on a recent three dimensional channel modeling of UAV-based links, the secrecy analysis is in detail conducted for UAV-based links operating on the millimeter wave band. Specifically, the average channel capacity, the average secrecy capacity and the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity are all investigated between two UAVs in the presence of another UAV-based eavesdropper. Our results include closed form expressions of the addressed secrecy metrics along with simulation results that reveal the impact of different operational parameters on the secrecy performance.
AB - Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology have paved the way to their utilization in different fields and applications. Among these applications, UAVs have been widely investigated as a good candidate to serve as mobile base-stations that can provide prompt and temporary coverage of wireless connectivity for specific areas. Recent studies that address different UAVs’ performance aspect lack of considering more practical channel models. Therefore, in this paper, based on a recent three dimensional channel modeling of UAV-based links, the secrecy analysis is in detail conducted for UAV-based links operating on the millimeter wave band. Specifically, the average channel capacity, the average secrecy capacity and the probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity are all investigated between two UAVs in the presence of another UAV-based eavesdropper. Our results include closed form expressions of the addressed secrecy metrics along with simulation results that reveal the impact of different operational parameters on the secrecy performance.
KW - Secrecy capacity
KW - directional antennas
KW - hovering fluctuations
KW - millimeter wave
KW - secrecy analysis
KW - unmanned aerial vehicles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173044893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3316919
DO - 10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3316919
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85173044893
SN - 2644-125X
VL - 4
SP - 3030
EP - 3039
JO - IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
JF - IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
ER -