RF/WiFi-based UAV surveillance systems: A systematic literature review

The deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has gained increasing interest in various applications during recent years due to its multiple features. At the same time, the misuse of UAVs has also posed serious concerns related to privacy, safety, and security of individuals and organizations. This has caused the utmost demand for drone surveillance systems to monitor suspicious activities of any UAVs. In this context, this paper aims at presenting a systematic literature review of the most interesting works concerning the design and development of drone surveillance systems for target detection and tracking based upon RF/WiFi techniques. More specifically, the research tackles the addressed design issues and challenges, the employed methods and techniques. Furthermore, the methodology of the literature review is carefully described, and the performance assessment of relevant studies is explored and analyzed, based on specific criteria. Provided the analysis of state-of-the-art, future research trends are also highlighted in detail, in order to drive the scientific community to research and design novel and efficient drone surveillance systems based on RF/WiFi techniques.