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With the explosive growth of maritime activities, it is expected to provide seamless communications with quality of service (QoS) guarantee over broad sea area. In the context, this paper proposes a space-air-ground-sea integrated maritime…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhehan Zhou , Xiaoming Chen , Ming Ying , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Yunlong Cai , Zhaoyang Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to provide wireless connectivity for ground users (GUs) in various emergency scenarios. However, it is a NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangbin Lyu , Xu Chen , Jiefeng Zhang , Liqun Fu

In this letter, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted Base Stations (UAV-BSs) in multi-UAV cellular networks. We model the multi-UAV deployment problem as a user satisfaction maximization problem, that is, maximizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Ang-Hsun Tsai , Chia-Wei Ting , Ko-Han Lin , Jing-Chi Ling , Chia-En Tsai

Due to their ability to anchor into tall urban landforms, such as lampposts or street lights, robotic aerial base stations (RABSs) can create a hyper-flexible wireless multi-hop heterogeneous network to meet the forthcoming green,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Wen Shang , Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, a machine learning based deployment framework of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. In the considered model, UAVs are deployed as flying base stations (BS) to offload heavy traffic from ground BSs. Due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Linyan Lu , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zelin Zang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cellular networks have garnered considerable interest. One of their applications is as flying base stations (FBSs), which can increase coverage and quality of service (QoS). Because FBSs are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Mohammad Javad Sobouti , Amir Hossein Mohajerzadeh , Seyed Amin Hosseini Seno , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Base station densification is one of the key approaches for delivering high capacity in radio access networks. However, current static deployments are often impractical and financially unsustainable, as they increase both capital and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Laura Finarelli , Falko Dressler , Marco Marsan Ajmone , Gianluca Rizzo

In this paper, the effective use of flight-time constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations that can provide wireless service to ground users is investigated. In particular, a novel framework for optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

In this work, we study the trade-off between the reliability and the investment cost of an unmanned aerial system (UAS) consisting of a set of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying radio access nodes, called portable access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Nithin Babu , Petar Popovski , Constantinos B. Papadias

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) is envisaged as a key enabler for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond-5G networks. Specifically, aerial base stations (UAV-BS) are expected to provide ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this letter, we study a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to complete a mission of flying between two pre-determined locations while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. -M. Lau

This work considers the placement of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) with criterion of minimum UAV-recall-frequency (UAV-RF), indicating the energy efficiency of mobile UAVs networks. Several different power consumptions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jiaxun Lu , Shuo Wan , Xuhong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, a novel machine learning (ML) framework is proposed for enabling a predictive, efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (BSs), to provide on-demand wireless service to cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Qianqian Zhang , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

In the coming smart ocean era, reliable and efficient communications are crucial for promoting a variety of maritime activities. Current maritime communication networks (MCNs) mainly rely on marine satellites and on-shore base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yanmin Wang , Wei Feng , Jue Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) performing as flying aerial base stations (BSs) has a great potential of adaptively serving ground users during temporary events, such as major disasters and massive events. However, planning an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Tatsuaki Kimura , Masaki Ogura

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Stations (UAVBSs) are envisioned to be an integral component of the next generation Wireless Communications Networks (WCNs) by dynamically moving the supply towards the demand. A significant drawback of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Cihan Tugrul Cicek , Hakan Gultekin , Bulent Tavli , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Temporary high traffic requests in cellular networks is a challenging problem to address. Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles applied to cover these types of traffics. UAV -Mounted Mobile Base Stations placement is a challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Amir Mirzaeinia , Mehdi Mirzaeinia , Mohammad Shekaramiz , Mostafa Hassanalian

The unmanned aerial vehicles base stations (UAV-BSs) have great potential in being widely used in many dynamic application scenarios. In those scenarios, the movements of served user equipments (UEs) are inevitable, so the UAV-BSs needs to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Haoran Peng , Chao Chen , Chuan-Chi Lai , Li-Chun Wang , Zhu Han