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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have steadily gained attention to overcome the harsh propagation loss and blockage issue of millimeter-wave communication. However, UAV communication systems suffer from energy consumption, which limits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Hyesang Cho , Junil Choi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

Timely information delivery in low-altitude networks is critical for many time-sensitive applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, inspection, and surveillance. The key challenge lies in balancing three competing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bowen Li , Jiping Luo , Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

A main challenge in providing connectivity to the low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through existing cellular network arises due to the increased interference in the network. The increased altitude and favourable propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Y. -P. Eric Wang , Shiwei Gao , Siva Muruganathan , Xingqin Lin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being utilized for a wide spectrum of applications in wireless networks leading to attractive business opportunities. In the case of abrupt disruption to existing cellular network operation or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Sanaa Sharafeddine , Rania Islambouli

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

This paper presents a novel multi-tier UAV-assisted edge computing system designed for low-altitude networks. The system comprises vehicle users, lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs), and High-Tier UAV (H-UAV). L-UAVs function as small-scale…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) that collectively perform complex tasks for diverse applications. An important challenge in realizing UAV networks is the need for a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jacob Chakareski

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

In this paper, we investigate a secure communication architecture based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which enhances the security performance of the communication system through UAV trajectory optimization. We formulate a control…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Zhendong Li , Chang Su , Zhou Su , Haixia Peng , Yuntao Wang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

To integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future large-scale deployments, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, the cellular-connected UAV has recently attracted interest. However, the line-of-sight dominant air-to-ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Ismail Guvenc , Walid Saad , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer promising potential as communications node carriers, providing on-demand wireless connectivity to users. While existing literature presents various wireless channel models, it often overlooks the impact…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kamran Shafafi , Eduardo Nuno Almeida , André Coelho , Helder Fontes , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

This letter considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled relay communication system for delivering latency-critical messages with ultra-high reliability, where the relay is operating under amplifier-and-forward (AF) mode. We aim to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

Electric vehicles (EVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) show great potential in modern transportation and communication networks, respectively. However, with growing demands for such technologies, the limited energy infrastructure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm has emerged as a promising novel paradigm to achieve better coverage and higher capacity for future wireless network by exploiting the more favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation. To reap the potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Lingyun Zhou , Xihan Chen , Mingyi Hong , Shi Jin , Qingjiang Shi

Over the last years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen significant advancements in sensor capabilities and computational abilities, allowing for efficient autonomous navigation and visual tracking applications. However, the demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Malte Janßen , Tobias Pfandzelter , Minghe Wang , David Bermbach

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 mobile relaying technique is a critical enhancing technology in wireless communications due to a higher chance of supporting the remote user from the base station (BS) with better quality of service. This paper investigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 S. Ahmed , Mostafa Z. Chowdhury , S. R. Sabuj , M. I. Alam , Y. M. Jang

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

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