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Magnetic resonant coupling (MRC) is an efficient method for realizing the near-field wireless power transfer (WPT). Although the MRC enabled WPT (MRC-WPT) with a single pair of transmitter and receiver has been thoroughly studied in the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Mohammad R. Vedady Moghadam , Rui Zhang

A novel framework is proposed for the trajectory design of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on the prediction of users' mobility information. The problem of joint trajectory design and power control is formulated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled radio access network (RAN) with the UAV acting as an aerial platform to communicate with a set of ground users (GUs) in a variety of modes of practical interest, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, one of the main restrictions is UAVs' limited battery endurance when executing persistent tasks. With the mature of wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies, by leveraging ground…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su

Wireless charging is a promising way to power wireless nodes' transmissions. This paper considers new dual-function access points (APs) which are able to support the energy/information transmission to/from wireless nodes. We focus on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yue Ling Che , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

RF Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) emerges as a technology for charging autonomous devices, enabling simultaneous power and information transfer. However, with increasing distance, single-input, single-channel rectenna systems are not able to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Chesney Buyle , Bert Cox , Liesbet Van der Perre , Lieven De Strycker

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

Radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) is a key technology for future low-power wireless systems. However, the inherently low end-to-end power transfer efficiency (PTE) is challenging for practical applications. The main factors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-10 Abdul Basit Khattak , Onel L. A. López , Amirhossein Azarbahram , Deepak Kumar , Matti Latva-aho

Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are of great potential to serve as aerial access points (APs) owing to better aerodynamic performance and longer flight endurance. However, the inherent hovering feature of fixed-wing UAVs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Ruiling Lyu , Yan Shi , Jiandong Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted considerable research interest recently. Especially when it comes to the realm of Internet of Things, the UAVs with Internet connectivity are one of the main demands. Furthermore, the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Arash Hooshmand

Machine-type-communications (MTC) are being crucial in the development of next generation mobile networks. Given that MTC devices are usually battery constrained, wireless power transfer (WPT) and energy harvesting (EH) have emerged as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Sergi Liesegang , Olga Muñoz-Medina , Antonio Pascual-Iserte

In this paper, an analytical framework is provided to analyze the energy coverage performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) energy harvesting networks with clustered user equipments (UEs). Locations of UEs are modeled as a Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Esma Turgut , M. Cenk Gursoy , Ismail Guvenc

This paper studies a wireless-energy-transfer (WET) enabled massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system (MM) consisting of a hybrid data-and-energy access point (H-AP) and multiple single-antenna users. In the WET-MM system, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gang Yang , Chin Keong Ho , Rui Zhang , Yong Liang Guan

We analyze a cooperative wireless communication system with finite block length and finite battery energy, under quasi-static Rayleigh fading. Source and relay nodes are powered by a wireless energy transfer (WET) process, while using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Onel L. A. López , Evelio M. G. Fernández , Richard D. Souza , Hirley Alves

Wireless power transfer (WPT) using energy beamforming is a promising solution for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this work, we consider WPT from an energy transmitter (ET) employing retrodirective WPT using a large phased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

These days, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems have drawn a lot of attention due to the increasing demand for faster data rates. Given the susceptibility of mmWave signals to obstacles and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Subhadip Ghosh , Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Sasthi C. Ghosh

The projected number of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors makes battery maintenance a challenging task. Although battery-less IoT is technologically viable, the sensors should be somehow energized, either locally or remotely. Unmanned aerial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Oktay Cetinkaya , Mustafa Ozger , David De Roure

Wireless-powered underground communication networks (WPUCNs), which allow underground devices (UDs) to harvest energy from wireless signals for battery-free communication, offer a promising solution for sustainable underground monitoring.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kaiqiang Lin , Yijie Mao , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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