Achievable Data Rate Under Jamming Conditions in UAV 5G Communication Scenarios

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in mission-critical applications such as disaster response, surveillance, and military operations, where communication between the ground control station (GCS) and the UAV must be ultra-reliable and low-latency (URLLC). How much data rate can be achieved?. Previous research has focused on analyzing the average achievable data rate (AADR) in such communication links under benign conditions using a three-dimensional (3D) channel model. However, in practical scenarios, UAV systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks such as jamming or spoofing initiated by other attacker UAVs, which can severely impair communication performance. Our contributions in this paperis the extension of the AADR analysis by incorporating the effects of intentional interference from attacker UAVs. We derive analytical expressions for the AADR under interference and explore how these findings can support the design of effective countermeasures. Our results show that even a single attacker can drastically degrade communication performance if the attacker is at least 1.5 m/s faster than the legitimate UAV and uses similar transmission power.