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In this paper, we consider an Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over cellular networks, where UAVs work as aerial users to collect various sensory data, and send the collected data to their transmission destinations over cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Optimal deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication relays is studied for fixed-rate variable-power systems. The considered setup is a set of ground transmitters (GTs) wishing to communicate with a set of ground receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play significant roles in multiple fields, which brings great challenges for the airspace safety. In order to achieve efficient surveillance and break the limitation of application scenarios caused by single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Chao Dong , Yiyang Liao , Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Lei Zhang

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless mesh networks can economically provide wireless services for the areas with disasters. However, the capacity of air-to-air communications is limited due to the multi-hop transmissions. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Zijun Guo , Zhiyong Feng , Jialin Zhu , Caijun Zhong , Qihui Wu , Huici Wu

In intelligent low-altitude networks, integrating monitoring tasks into communication unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can consume resources and increase handoff latency for communication links. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Jiahui Liang , Wenlihan Lu , Tianyi Liu , Kang Kang , Guixin Pan , Liuqing Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Shijian Gao

In this paper, the efficient deployment and mobility of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is investigated. In particular, to enable reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Enabling the Internet of things in remote environments without traditional communication infrastructure requires a multi-layer network architecture. Devices in the overlay network such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are required to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Muhammad Junaid Farooq , Quanyan Zhu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communications is a promising solution to improve the performance of future wireless networks, where UAVs are deployed as base stations for enhancing the quality of service (QoS) provided to ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xukai Zhong , Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Zhonghua Liang

A high-rate yet low-cost air-to-ground (A2G) communication backbone is conceived for integrating the space and terrestrial network by harnessing the opportunistic assistance of the passenger planes or high altitude platforms (HAPs) as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sarath Gopi , Sheetal Kalyani , Xiaojing Huang , Lajos Hanzo

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 emerging low-altitude economy has catalyzed the large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), driving a paradigm shift in environment monitoring, logistics, and emergency response. However, operating within these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianhao Liang , Nanchi Su , Yuqi Ping , Guangyu Lei , Xinglin Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we propose a novel optimization model for multiple Unmanned Areal Vehicles (UAVs) working as relays and helping Device-to-Device (D2D) communications at the same time. The goal of the UAVs is to operate in an energy-efficient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ahmad Alsharoa , Murat Yukse

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-to-ground (U2G) channel models play a pivotal role for reliable communications between UAV and ground terminal. This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) non-stationary hybrid model including both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Boyu Hua , Haoran Ni , Qiuming Zhu , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tongtong Zhou , Kai Mao , Junwei Bao , Xiaofei Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a disruptive technology that is transforming a range of industries. Because they operate in the sky, UAVs are able to take advantage of strong Line-of-Sight (LoS) channels for radio propagation, allowing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Ken Lyons , Gokhan Celik , Holger Claussen

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is regarded as a key enabling platform for low-altitude economy, due to its advantages such as 3D maneuverability, flexible deployment, and LoS air-to-air/ground communication links. In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Bin Li , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are essential for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Daniel Bonilla Licea , Giuseppe Silano , Mounir Ghogho , Martin Saska

Communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in deploying aerial networks. Although some studies reveal that drone-based air-to-air (A2A) channels are relatively clear and thus can be modeled as free-space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Abdul Saboor , Achiel Colpaert , Sofie Pollin

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial communication platforms is of high practical value for future wireless systems such as 5G, especially for swift and on-demand deployment in temporary events and emergency situations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Qingqing Wu , Liang Liu , Rui Zhang