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Following the burgeoning interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) utilization within human-inhabited spaces, critical challenges arise in ensuring reliable, low-latency communication-particularly important given the safety-critical…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is becoming increasingly used in a variety of applications such as video surveillance and deliveries. To enable safe and efficient use of UAVs, the devices will need to be connected into cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Boris Galkin , Erika Fonseca , Gavin Lee , Conor Duff , Marvin Kelly , Edward Emmanuel , Ivana Dusparic

Modern day wireless networks have tremendously evolved driven by a sharp increase in user demands, continuously requesting more data and services. This puts significant strain on infrastructure based macro cellular networks due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vishal Sharma , Mehdi Bennis , Rajesh Kumar

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for enabling cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications in the future. Equipped with full-dimensional large arrays, ground base stations (GBSs) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yi Huang , Qingqing Wu , Rui Lu , Xiaoming Peng , Rui Zhang

Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types of aerial vehicles along with new means of transportation. Addressing a plethora of use cases, drones are gaining attention and increasingly appear in the sky.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Aygün Baltaci , Ergin Dinc , Mustafa Ozger , Abdulrahman Alabbasi , Cicek Cavdar , Dominic Schupke

The deployment of beyond fifth-generation (5G) infrastructure over disaster-affected regions, temporary hotspot situations (e.g., massive gatherings, etc.), complex terrains (e.g., sea, hills, marshes, etc.) poses numerous challenges for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Byomakesh Mahapatra , Deepika Gupta , Pankaj Kumar Sharma

Multi-way and device-to-device (D2D) communications are currently considered for the design of future communication systems. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effectively deployed to extend the communication range of D2D networks. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jaber Kakar , Anas Chaaban , Vuk Marojevic , Aydin Sezgin

Maritime activities represent a major domain of economic growth with several emerging maritime Internet of Things use cases, such as smart ports, autonomous navigation, and ocean monitoring systems. The major enabler for this exciting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nikolaos Nomikos , Panagiotis K. Gkonis , Petros S. Bithas , Panagiotis Trakadas

Up until now, path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has mainly been focused on the optimisation towards energy efficiency. However, to operate UAVs safely, wireless coverage is of utmost importance. Currently, deployed cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Sibren De Bast , Evgenii Vingradov , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, have unmatched potential for pioneering applications in a wide range of disciplines. In particular, in the field of cognitive radio (CR), which is a key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anas Osman , Morteza Alijani

This paper aims to propose a three-dimensional (3D) point process that can be employed to generally deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a large-scale cellular network and tractably analyze the fundamental network-wide performances of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Chun-Hung Liu , Di-Chun Liang , Rung-Hung Gau

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

Drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs]) are expected to be an important component of fifth generation (5G)/beyond 5G (B5G) cellular architectures that can potentially facilitate wireless broadcast or point-to-multipoint transmissions.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Silvia Sekander , Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is a promising technology in future wireless communication networks. UAVs can not only help offload data traffic from ground base stations (GBSs), but also improve the quality of service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yukuan Ji , Zhaohui Yang , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xiaodai Dong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are poised to revolutionize next-generation wireless networks by enabling simultaneous sensing and communication (S\&C). This survey comprehensively…

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

We propose the intermittently tethered unmanned aerial vehicle (iTUAV) as a tradeoff between the power availability of a tethered UAV (TUAV) and the flexibility of an untethered UAV. An iTUAV can provide cellular connectivity while being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Nesrine Cherif , Wael Jaafar , Evgenii Vinogradov , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Sofie Pollin , Abbas Yongacoglu

The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are essential for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Daniel Bonilla Licea , Giuseppe Silano , Mounir Ghogho , Martin Saska

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become extremely popular for both military and civilian applications due to their ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness, high maneuverability, and availability. Both applications, however, need reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mohammed Gharib , Bryce Hopkins , Jackson Murrin , Andre Koka , Fatemeh Afghah

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) computing and networking are becoming a fundamental computation infrastructure for diverse cyber-physical application systems. UAVs can be empowered by AI on edge devices and can communicate with other UAVs and…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qingyang Zhang , Mohammad Dwipa Furqan , Tasfia Nutzhat , Fumio Machida , Ermeson Andrade