Cooperative UAV-Assisted Secure Uplink Communications With Propulsion Power Limitation

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely utilized to improve the end-to-end performance of wireless communications. In this paper, we perform a cooperative dual-UAV enabled secure data collection scenario and propose two schemes to ensure the security. The worst-case average secrecy rate is first maximized with the propulsion power limitation, where the scheduling, the transmit power, the trajectory and the velocity of UAVs are jointly optimized. To further save the on-board energy and prolong the flight time, we then maximize the secrecy energy efficiency. Based on the Dinkelbach method, we transform the fractional objective function into an integral expression and propose an iterative algorithm to obtain a suboptimal solution. Finally, numerical results are provided to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.