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Supporting reliable and seamless mobility for aerial users, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is a key challenge for the next-generation cellular systems. To tackle this challenge, we propose a joint beamforming, user association,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jiancao Hou , Yansha Deng , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to aggressively and safely track an agile target. The solution properly handles the challenging situations where the intent of the target and the dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhichao Han , Ruibin Zhang , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being integrated into next-generation networks to enhance communication coverage and network capacity. However, the dynamic and mobile nature of UAVs poses significant security challenges,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Hao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wang , Qihui Wu , Chau Yuen

Wireless communication between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the ground base station (BS) is susceptible to adversarial jamming. In such situations, it is important for the UAV to indicate a new channel to the BS. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Guillem Reus Muns , Mithun Diddi , Hanumant Singh , Kaushik R. Chowdhury

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms represent a key advancement in autonomous systems, enabling coordinated missions through inter-UAV communication. However, their reliance on wireless links makes them vulnerable to jamming, which can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Miguel Lourenço , António Grilo

This paper presents an algorithm for solving the problem of tracking smooth curves by a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle travelling with a constant airspeed and under a constant wind disturbance. The algorithm is based on the idea of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Hector Garcia de Marina , Yuri A. Kapitanyuk , Murat Bronz , Gautier Hattenberger , Ming Cao

Unmanned aerial vehicles provide new opportunities for performance improvements in future wireless communications systems. For example, they can act as relays that extend the range of a communication link and improve the capacity. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

Analog beamforming is a low-cost architecture for millimeter-wave (mmWave) mobile communications. However, it has two disadvantages for serving fast mobility users: (i) the mmWave beam in the wireless channel and the beam steered by analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-04 Yu Liu , Jiahui Li , Yin Sun , Shidong Zhou

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the technological breakthroughs that supports a variety of services, including communications. UAV will play a critical role in enhancing the physical layer security of wireless networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

In this letter, a dual-bistatic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tracking system utilizing downlink Long-Term Evolution (LTE) signals is proposed and demonstrated. Particularly, two LTE base stations (BSs) are exploited as illumination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Chenqing Ji , Jiahong Liu , Qionghui Liu , Yifei Sun , Chao Yu , Rui Wang

This paper introduces a novel beam tracking scheme for full-duplex ground user terminals aiming to transmit uplink and receive downlink from two low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites at the same time and same frequency. Our proposed technique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Chaeyeon Kim , Joohyun Son , Daesik Hong , Ian P. Roberts

High data rate communication with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is of growing demand among industrial and commercial applications since the last decade. In this paper, we investigate enhancing beam forming performance based on signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Tianxiao Zhao , Chunbo Luo , Geyong Min , Jianming Zhou , Dechun Guo , Wang Miao , Yang Mi

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of sensors via distributed beamforming. We consider the delay-sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

In this paper, we propose a channel tracking method for massive multi-input and multi-output systems under both time-varying and spatial-varying circumstance. Exploiting the characteristics of massive antenna array, a spatial-temporal basis…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-01 Jianwei Zhao , Hongxiang Xie , Feifei Gao , Weimin Jia , Shi Jin , Hai Lin

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising technology to extend coverage and enhance throughput for traditional terrestrial wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled wireless sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

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 letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or "drones" into the civil aviation airspace is a problem of increasing interest in the aviation community, as testified by many initiatives developed worldwide. Many traditional surveillance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Domenico Pascarella

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

Autonomous fixed-wing UAV landing based on differential GPS is now a mainstream providing reliable and precise landing. But the task still remains challenging when GPS availability is limited like for military UAVs. We discuss a solution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Vsevolod Khithov , Alexander Petrov , Igor Tishchenko , Konstantin Yakovlev