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To address the issues of high operational costs and low energy efficiency (EE) caused by the dense deployment of small base stations (s-BSs) in 5G ultra-dense networks (UDNs), this paper first constructs a multi-objective mathematical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ruixing Ren , Shan Chen , Xuehan Bao , Pingzheng Ge , Dongming Wang , Junhui Zhao

Optimizing the cellular network's cell locations is one of the most fundamental problems of network design. The general objective is to provide the desired Quality-of-Service (QoS) with the minimum system cost. In order to meet a growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang , Xiaoli Chu , Jiming Chen , Hui Song , Jie Zhang

To improve capacity and overcome some of the limitations of cellular wireless networks, drones with aerial base stations can be deployed to assist the terrestrial cellular wireless networks. The mobility of drones allows flexible network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mohammad Salehi , Ekram Hossain

In cellular networks, the densification of connected devices and base stations engender the ever-growing traffic intensity, and caching popular contents with smart management is a promising way to alleviate such consequences. Our research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Takehiro Ohashi

The demand for future wireless communication systems is being satisfied for various circumstances through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which act as flying base stations (BSs). In this letter, we propose an ellipse clustering algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Si-Chan Noh , Hong-Bae Jeon , Chan-Byoung Chae

Airborne (or flying) base stations (ABSs) embedded on drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deemed as a central element of envisioned 6G cellular networks where significant cell densification with mmWave/Terahertz communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Vasilis Friderikos

We consider energy-efficient wireless resource management in cellular networks where BSs are equipped with energy harvesting devices, using statistical information for traffic intensity and harvested energy. The problem is formulated as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jie Gong , John S. Thompson , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

In this paper, the design of an optimal trajectory for an energy-constrained drone operating in dynamic network environments is studied. In the considered model, a drone base station (DBS) is dispatched to provide uplink connectivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ye Hu , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

In recent years, the cellular industry has witnessed a major evolution in communication technologies. It is evident that the Next Generation of cellular networks(NGN) will play a pivotal role in the acceptance of emerging IoT applications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Daksh Dave , Dhruv Khut , Sahil Nawale , Pushkar Aggrawal , Disha Rastogi , Kailas Devadkar

We treat a setting in which two priority wireless service classes are offered in a given area by a drone small cell (DSC). Specifically, we consider broadband (BB) user with high priority and reliability requirements that coexists with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Igor Donevski , Jimmy Jessen Nielsen , Petar Popovski

Large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) systems require scalable solutions to allocate communication and computing resources to the users. In this letter we address this challenge by applying dynamic spectrum sharing among the base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ming Zeng , Viktoria Fodor

Despite the significant attention that aerial base stations (ABSs) have received recently, their practical implementation is severely weakened by their limited endurance due to the battery constraints of drones. To overcome this fundamental…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wen Shang , Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos , Halim Yanikomeroglu

To solve the problem that the low capacity in hot-spots and coverage holes of conventional cellular networks, the base stations (BSs) having lower transmit power are deployed to form heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Tianqing Zhou , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to provide wireless connectivity for ground users (GUs) in various emergency scenarios. However, it is a NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangbin Lyu , Xu Chen , Jiefeng Zhang , Liqun Fu

This paper investigates the feasibility of Dynamic Horizontal Opportunistic Positioning (D-HOP) use in Drone Small Cells (DSCs), with a central analysis on the impact of antenna equipment efficiency onto the optimal DSC altitude that has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Igor Donevski , Jimmy Jessen Nielsen

The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Raju Shrestha

Energy saving in wireless networks is growing in importance due to increasing demand for evolving new-gen cellular networks, environmental and regulatory concerns, and potential energy crises arising from geopolitical tensions. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Junliang Luo , Yi Tian Xu , Di Wu , Michael Jenkin , Xue Liu , Gregory Dudek

Future mobile communication networks require an Aerial Base Station (ABS) with fast mobility and long-term hovering capabilities. At present, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones do not have long flight times and are mainly used for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Li-Chun Wang , Chuan-Chi Lai , Hong-Han Shuai , Hsin-Piao Lin , Chi-Yu Li , Teng-Hu Cheng , Chiun-Hsun Chen

In this paper, we consider a novel cellular network for aerial users, which is composed of dedicated base stations (BSs), whose antennas are directed towards aerial users, and traditional terrestrial BSs (TBSs). Besides, the dedicated BSs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We address a dynamic covering location problem of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Station (UAV-BS), where the location sequence of a single UAV-BS in a wireless communication network is determined to satisfy data demand arising from ground…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Cihan Tugrul Cicek , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hakan Gultekin , Bulent Tavli