Joint Trajectory Design and Resource Allocation for Secure Air–Ground Integrated IoT Networks

We investigate in this article joint trajectory design and resource allocation for secure air–ground integrated Internet of Things (IoT) networks with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) jamming and device-to-device (D2D) enhancement. By jointly optimizing ground user (GU) scheduling, UAV flight trajectory, and transmit power, we are able to maximize the minimum system secrecy rate of UAV and D2D communications. The formulated optimization problems of the two typical network scenarios, i.e., with and without UAV jamming, are challenging to be solved due to the corresponding nonsmooth and nonconcave objective functions. Therefore, we propose alternating iterative algorithms to solve the problems by employing the successive convex approximation and block coordinate descent methods. Extensive results indicate that the proposed joint optimization schemes can effectively improve the secrecy communication performance under different spatial distributions of GUs.