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In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to enable a predictive deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as temporary base stations (BSs) to complement ground cellular systems in face of downlink traffic overload. First, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Xing Lu , Merouane Debbah , Wangda Zuo

In this paper, we study the path planning for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to minimize its flying distance from given initial to final locations, while ensuring a target link quality in terms of the large-scale channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

The mushroom growth of cellular users requires novel advancements in the existing cellular infrastructure. One way to handle such a tremendous increase is to densely deploy terrestrial small-cell base stations (TSBSs) with careful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Muhammad K. Shehzad , Arsalan Ahmad , Syed Ali Hassan , Haejoon Jung

The pervasiveness of the wireless cellular network can be a key enabler for the deployment of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in beyond visual line of sight scenarios without human control. However, traditional cellular networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Walid Saad , Ismail Guvenc

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

In this paper, the deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying base station used to provide on the fly wireless communications to a given geographical area is analyzed. In particular, the co-existence between the UAV, that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Owing to the controlling flexibility and cost-effectiveness, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to serve as flying base stations (BSs) in the air-ground integrated network. By exploiting the mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Xuezhen Yan , Xuming Fang , Cailian Deng , Xianbin Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely adopted in wireless systems due to its flexibility, mobility, and agility. Nevertheless, a limited onboard battery greatly hinders UAV to prolong the serving time from communication tasks that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Hieu Tran-Dinh , Sumit Gautam , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

We introduce the concept of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as drone base stations for in-band Integrated Access and Backhaul (IB-IAB) scenarios for 5G networks. We first present a system model for forward link transmissions in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Abdurrahman Fouda , Ahmed S. Ibrahim , Ismail Guvenc , Monisha Ghosh

During the last few years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensors and cameras has emerged as a cutting-edge technology to provide services such as surveillance, infrastructure inspections, and target acquisition.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Giovanni Giambene , Tomaso De Cola , Michele Zorzi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

In this paper, we consider an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted cellular system which consists of multiple UAV base stations (BSs) cooperating the terrestrial BSs. In such a heterogeneous network, for cellular operators, the problem is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Chuan-Chi Lai , Li-Chun Wang , Zhu Han

The agile mobility of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) makes them ideal for low-altitude edge computing. This paper proposes a novel multi-tier UAV edge computing system where lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs) function as edge servers for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

In this paper, we study the trajectory design for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with given initial and final locations, while communicating with the ground base stations (GBSs) along its flight. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) provides a promising way to support ultrafast aggregation of distributed data. However, its performance cannot be guaranteed in long-distance transmission due to the distortion induced by the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Ting Wang , Wei Chen

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

In this paper, we consider unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted cellular communication system, where UAVs can be used as amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. The effective channel with UAV assisted communication can be modeled as a Rayleigh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Sha Hu , Jose Flordelis , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors

Mobile base stations on board unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to deliver connectivity to those areas where the terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A fundamental problem in this context involves determining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Geert Leus

This paper proposes an innovative approach by leveraging uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) and a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) as the central processing unit (CPU) in an integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Parisa Kanani , Mohammad Javad Omidi , Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi , Halim Yanikomeroglu