Anti-jamming Technology for Integrated Communication and Sensing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles under Obstacle Factors

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Huiyu Liang

Keywords

UAV, ISAC, occlusion effect, anti-jamming technology

Abstract

The obstacle factors will deteriorate communication links and sensing performance when the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are working in an environment like a urban canyon, which limit the applications of them. However, Integrated Communication and Sensing (ISAC), one of the key enabling technologies for 6G, provides new approaches for reducing occlusion interference. This paper reviews the research on Anti-jamming Technology for ISAC of UAVs under Obstacle Factors in recent years by analyzing the characteristics of occlusion and sorting out the existing technologies from three aspects: communication, sensing and cross-domain collaboration. In the future, constructing a high-fidelity dataset for urban canyon, developing lightweight intelligent anti-jamming architectures and exploring Integrated Communication, Sensing and Computing Collaboration (ISCC) will be an important research direction, which can provide technical support for the large-scale application of scenarios like urban air traffic, emergency response and Wide-Area Internet.

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