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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide wireless data access for ground users in various applications (e.g., in emergence situations). This paper considers a UAV-enabled wireless network, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Peiming Li , Jie Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various applications in practice, we provide a comprehensive survey on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Qingheng Song , Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Shi Jin

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key question is how to adapt UAV deployment to best cater to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhe Wang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

The market size of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, a.k.a drones) can reach up to 10% of the global market value. In particular, drone delivery is one of the most attractive applications. The growing number of drones requires appropriate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Achiel Colpaert , Michaël Raes , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will inevitably be integrated into future cellular networks as new aerial mobile users. Providing cellular connectivity to UAVs will enable a myriad of applications ranging from online…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ursula Challita , Aidin Ferdowsi , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

For reliable and efficient communications of aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the cellular network is envisioned to provide connectivity for the aerial and ground user equipment (GUE) simultaneously, which brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Ke Guan , İsmail Güvenç , Claude Oestges , Zhangdui Zhong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people in a disaster zone, where each UAV is equipped with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wenzheng Xu , Yueying Sun , Rui Zou , Weifa Liang , Qiufen Xia , Feng Shan , Tian Wang , Xiaohua Jia , Zheng Li

It is expected that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in future communication systems. Optimum positioning of UAVs, serving as base stations, can be done through extensive field measurements or ray tracing simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ibrahim Shoer , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Hasan F. Ates , Tuncer Baykas

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly integrated into cellular networks to support emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In such settings, reliable communication is critical for electronic conspicuity (EC), enabling UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Md Sharif Hossen , Vijay K. Shah , Ismail Guvenc

This paper jointly optimizes the flying location and wireless communication transmit power for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) conducting covert operations. This is motivated by application scenarios such as military ground surveillance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shihao Yan , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as flying radio access network (RAN) nodes offers a promising complement to traditional fixed terrestrial deployments. More recently yet still in the context of wireless networks, drones have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 David Gesbert , Omid Esrafilian , Junting Chen , Rajeev Gangula , Urbashi Mitra

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for UAV. However, the communication capacity is becoming a bottleneck…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Zhenyu Xiao , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Pengfei Yi , Rui Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Robert Schober

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless networks has opened a new horizon to meet the capacity and coverage requirements foreseen in future wireless networks. Harnessing UAVs as flying base stations (BSs) has helped…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Rabe Arshad , Lutz Lampe , Hesham ElSawy , Md. Jahangir Hossain

In this work, we develop a measurement platform to capture mobile network performance metrics including coverage and quality of service in regions where conventional coverage testing approaches are frequently time-intensive,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sherwan Jalal Abdullah , Sravan Reddy Chintareddy , Victor S. Frost , Shawn Keshmiri , Morteza Hashemi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fill coverage holes as wireless relays during emergency situations. Fixed-wing UAVs offer longer flight duration and larger coverage in such situations than rotary-wing counterparts. Maximizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daniel T. Bonkowsky , Ibrahim Kilinc , Robert W. Heath

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular communication is gaining significant interest recently. Although it offers several advantages over terrestrial communication, UAV communication suffers from two main shortcomings. The typical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Osama M. Bushnaq , Mustafa A. Kishk , Abdulkadir Çelik , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Ad hoc wireless mesh networks formed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with wireless transceivers (access points (APs)) are increasingly being touted as being able to provide a flexible "on-the-fly" communications infrastructure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Ryoichi Shinkuma , Narayan B. Mandayam

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst