UAV Anti-Jamming Communications With Power and Mobility Control

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled air-ground integrated communication systems are vulnerable to jamming attack, mainly due to the high probability with line-of-sight wireless channel conditions. Although a few UAV anti-jamming transmission schemes have been recently proposed, the fundamental performance limits by simultaneously considering the UAV and jammer’s mobility have not yet been reported. These observations motivate us to formulate an interactive reward region (IRR) characterization problem for the scenario that the UAV and the jammer compete with each other to maximize their respective rewards via power and mobility control. Then, we propose a transmit and jamming power optimization algorithm to characterize the IRR with power control, by leveraging successive convex approximation technique, where two transmit power design schemes are given in closed-form expressions from a game-theoretic perspective. Furthermore, the IRR with joint power and mobility control is characterized based on alternating optimization, in which both the UAV and jammer can simultaneously adjust their power and trajectories. Finally, extensive simulation results reveal that joint transmit power and trajectory optimization can enlarge the IRR, and increasing the UAV mobility and flight time length improves the UAV reward.