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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used in a wide area of military and civilian applications such as data collection and monitoring. A reliable network for command and control, communication, and data transfer is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mohammed Gharib , Shashidhar Nandadapu , Fatemeh Afghah

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

With growing interest in mmWave connectivity for UAVs, a basic question is whether networks intended for terrestrial users can provide sufficient aerial coverage as well. To assess this possibility, the paper proposes a novel evaluation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Seongjoon Kang , Marco Mezzavilla , Angel Lozano , Giovanni Geraci , William Xia , Sundeep Rangan , Vasilii Semkin , Giuseppe Loianno

Due to their ability to anchor into tall urban landforms, such as lampposts or street lights, robotic aerial base stations (RABSs) can create a hyper-flexible wireless multi-hop heterogeneous network to meet the forthcoming green,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Wen Shang , Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular communication is gaining significant interest recently. Although it offers several advantages over terrestrial communication, UAV communication suffers from two main shortcomings. The typical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Osama M. Bushnaq , Mustafa A. Kishk , Abdulkadir Çelik , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G) networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will also target the extension of the geographical cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Use of aerial base stations (ABSs) is a promising approach to enhance the agility and flexibility of future wireless networks. ABSs can improve the coverage and/or capacity of a network by moving supply towards demand. Deploying ABSs in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Elham Kalantari , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

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

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a major role in various civilian and commercial applications in the future. While existing cellular networks can provide wireless coverage to UAV user equipment (UE),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Priyanka Sinha , Ismail Guvenc

Cellular networks are promising to support effective wireless communications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will help to enable various long-range UAV applications. However, these networks are optimized for terrestrial users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Yang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Lataief

In mobile networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations (FlyBSs) can effectively improve performance. Nevertheless, such potential improvement requires an efficient positioning of the FlyBS. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo , Zdenek Becvar , Omid Esrafilian , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fill coverage holes as wireless relays during emergency situations. Fixed-wing UAVs offer longer flight duration and larger coverage in such situations than rotary-wing counterparts. Maximizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daniel T. Bonkowsky , Ibrahim Kilinc , Robert W. Heath

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance network coverage has proven a variety of benefits compared to terrestrial counterparts. One of the commonly used mathematical tools to model the locations of the UAVs is stochastic geometry…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

To support large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, cellular-connected UAV, has recently received an upsurge of interests in both academia and industry.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we introduce and study the potentials and challenges of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) as one of the promising techniques for evolving 5G networks. We study IAB networks from different perspectives. We summarize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Charitha Madapatha , Behrooz Makki , Chao Fang , Oumer Teyeb , Erik Dahlman , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tommy Svensson

Providing seamless connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle user equipments (UAV-UEs) is very challenging due to the encountered line-of-sight interference and reduced gains of down-tilted base station (BS) antennas. For instance, as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Boris Galkin , Nicola Marchetti

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

We consider multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving a density of ground terminals (GTs) as base stations. The objective is to minimize the outage probability of GT-to-UAV transmissions. Optimal placement of UAVs under different UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Erdem Koyuncu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have drastically gained popularity in various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications to improve the safety and efficiency of transportation systems. In this context, the combination of ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Manuel Patchou , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld

It is expected that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in future communication systems. Optimum positioning of UAVs, serving as base stations, can be done through extensive field measurements or ray tracing simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ibrahim Shoer , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Hasan F. Ates , Tuncer Baykas