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This paper studies the improvement of the achievable end-to-end data rate of ground users assisted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and tethered balloons (TBs). The goal is to maximize the end-to-end throughput of a network suffering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ala Alzidaneen , Ahmad Alsharoa , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The ability to efficiently plan and execute automated and precise search missions using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during emergency response situations is imperative. Precise navigation between obstacles and time-efficient searching of…

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) promise to become an intrinsic part of next generation communications, as they can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to ground users to supplement existing terrestrial networks. The majority of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Boris Galkin , Babatunji Omoniwa , Ivana Dusparic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a convenient choice for carrying mobile base stations to rapidly setup communication services for ground users. Unlike terrestrial networks, UAVs do not have fiber optic back-haul connectivity except when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

Unlike aerial base station enabled by a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), aerial coordinated multiple points (CoMP) can be enabled by a UAV swarm. In this case, the management of multiple UAVs is important. This paper considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xuanxuan Wang , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge

Driven by the recent advancement in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, this paper proposes a new wireless network architecture of \emph{coordinate multipoint (CoMP) in the sky} to harness both the benefits of interference mitigation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a critical component in next-generation wireless networks, particularly for disaster recovery scenarios, due to their flexibility, mobility, and rapid deployment capabilities. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Mazen Hasna , Saud Althunibat , Khalid Qaraqe

This work considers the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology that enables multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAV) communication systems to provide on-demand services. The main aim of this work is to derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Airborne base stations (carried by drones) have a great potential to enhance coverage and capacity of cellular networks. Multiple scenarios and use cases will highly benefit from such technology such as (i) offloading terrestrial base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Mustafa A. Kishk , Ahmed Bader , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this letter, we study the on-demand UAV-BS placement problem for arbitrarily distributed users. This UAV-BS placement problem is modeled as a knapsack-like problem, which is NP-complete. We propose a density-aware placement algorithm to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Chun-Ting Chen , Li-Chun Wang

Passive geolocation by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) covers a wide range of military and civilian applications including rescue, wild life tracking and electronic warfare. The sensor-target geometry is known to significantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Xin Cheng , Feng Shu , Yifan Li , Zhihong Zhuang , Di Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can serve as aerial base stations (BSs) to extend the ubiquitous connectivity for ground users (GUs) in the sixth-generation (6G) era. However, it is challenging to cooperatively deploy multiple UAV swarms in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ziye Jia , Jia He , Lijun He , Min Sheng , Junyu Liu , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

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) have been extensively utilized to provide wireless connectivity in rural and under-developed areas, enhance network capacity and provide support for peaks or unexpected surges in user demand, mainly due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Anousheh Gholami , Nariman Torkzaban , John S. Baras , Chrysa Papagianni

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used for a wide range of applications. Due to characteristics such as the ability to hover and carry cargo on-board, rotary-wing UAVs have been considered suitable platforms for carrying communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

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

Post-disaster situations pose unique navigation challenges. One of those challenges is the unstructured nature of the environment, which makes it hard to layout paths for rescue vehicles. We propose the use of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raghav Adhikari , Sachet Khatiwada , Suman Poudel

In this paper, we address the problem of finding the optimal trajectory for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for improving the wireless coverage of a terrestrial cellular network. In particular, we consider a UAV that is tasked to travel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-14 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Eyuphan Bulut , Ismail Guvenc