The US Federal Aviation Administration has mandated the use of the Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system by January 2020 as a key component of the …

For an unmanned aerial system (UAS) to operate successfully, it has to communicate
reliably with different entities within its network. These entities include other aircraft and UAS, …

Cognitive radio is a promising technology proposed to solve the scarcity of the radio spectrum
by opportunistically allocating the idle channels of the licensed users to unlicensed ones. …

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have received a huge interest in military and civil applications.
Applications of UAS are dependent on successful communications of these systems …

With the increase in utilization of portable devices and ever-growing demand for greater data
rates in wireless transmission, an increasing demand for spectrum channels was observed …

Estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) has become an integral part of wireless
communication systems, particularly in cognitive radio systems. The knowledge of the SNR at any …

The scarcity of the radio spectrum has motivated a search for more optimal and efficient
spectrum management methods. One of these methods is spectrum sharing, which multiplies the …

Real-world performance evaluation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) requires a
considerable amount of time and resources. It is challenging to evaluate and make frequent …

Aviation communities are nowadays deploying automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast
(ADS-B) systems on aircraft to have more accurate and reliable air traffic control. This …

One of the disadvantages of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)
communications protocol is its vulnerability to a number of security attacks since it broadcasts …