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Mobility Induced Sensitivity of UAV based Nodes to Jamming in Private 5G Airfield Networks An Experimental Study

Published: December 3, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.03536v1

By: Pavlo Mykytyn , Ronald Chitauro , Onur Yener and more

Potential Business Impact:

Tests how drones stay connected during fake signal attacks.

Business Areas:
Drone Management Hardware, Software

This work presents an experimental performance evaluation of a private 5G airfield network under controlled directional SDR jamming attacks targeting UAV-based UE nodes. Using a QualiPoc Android UE, mounted as a payload on a quadcopter UAV, we conducted a series of experiments to evaluate signal degradation, handover performance, and ser-vice stability in the presence of constant directional jamming. The conducted experiments aimed to examine the effects of varying travel speeds, altitudes, and moving patterns of a UAV-based UE to record and analyze the key physical-layer and network-layer metrics such as CQI, MCS, RSRP, SINR, BLER, Net PDSCH Throughput and RLF. The re-sults of this work describe the link stability and signal degradation dependencies, caused by the level of mobility of the UAV-based UE nodes during autonomous and automatic operation in private 5G Airfield networks

Page Count
4 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Networking and Internet Architecture