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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and ground stations. Key questions that need to be addressed when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Sofie Pollin

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in place of large co-located massive MIMO arrays. We consider also a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

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

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

Enabling high-rate, low-latency and ultra-reliable wireless communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their associated ground pilots/users is of paramount importance to realize their large-scale usage in the future. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Yong Zeng , Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G) networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will also target the extension of the geographical cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

To integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future large-scale deployments, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, the cellular-connected UAV has recently attracted interest. However, the line-of-sight dominant air-to-ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Ismail Guvenc , Walid Saad , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search approach suitable for complex environments. In the application, a fixed-wing UAV drops rotor UAVs to deploy the cluster rapidly. Meanwhile, the fixed-wing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhenchang Liu , Mingrui Hao

With growing popularity, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pivotally extending conventional terrestrial Internet of Things (IoT) into the sky. To enable high-performance two-way communications of UAVs with their ground pilots/users,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-26 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

The effective integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future wireless communication systems depends on the conscious use of their limited energy, which constrains their flight time. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, we propose a unified three-dimensional (3D) spatial framework in this paper to model a general case that uncovered users send messages to base stations via UAVs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Eliane Bodanese , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Matthias R. Brust , Bogdan M. Strimbu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as enablers for supporting many applications and services, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, temporary network deployment or coverage extension, and security. UAVs are being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Keith Powell , Vuk Marojevic , Giovanni Geraci

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) downlink transmission facilitates critical time-sensitive visual applications but is fundamentally constrained by bandwidth scarcity and dynamic channel impairments. The rapid fluctuation of the air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jijia Tian , Junting Chen , Pooi-Yuen Kam

The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the next decade. The effective support of such massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohammad Mozaffari , Xingqin Lin , Stephen Hayes

The next generation of wireless communication systems will integrate terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks targeting to cover the undercovered regions, especially connecting the marine activities. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Muhammad Waseem Akhtar , Nasir Saeed

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

Drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are expected to be an important component of 5G/beyond 5G (B5G) communications. This includes their use within cellular architectures (5G UAVs), in which they can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Nozhan Hosseini , Hosseinali Jamal , David W. Matolak , Jamal Haque , Thomas Magesacher