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Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a flexible platform for providing coverage over challenging environments, particularly for public safety and surveillance missions in urban areas. However, deploying the UAVs in dense urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Donggu Lee , Sung Joon Maeng , Ismail Guvenc

In this paper, we provide a performance analysis for practical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled networks. By considering both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions between aerial base stations (BSs) and ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chang Liu , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Qingzhi Li , Zihuai Lin , Ying-Chang Liang

The blockage is a key challenge for millimeter wave communication systems, since these systems mainly work on line-of-sight (LOS) links, and the blockage can degrade the system performance significantly. It is recently found that visual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Ruijin Ding , Weihua Xu , Wanmai Yuan , Feifei Gao

Communication-sensing integration represents an up-and-coming area of research, enabling wireless networks to simultaneously perform communication and sensing tasks. However, in urban cellular networks, the blockage of buildings results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zezhong Sun , Shi Yan , Ning Jiang , Jiaen Zhou , Mugen Peng

By exploiting the degree of freedom on the altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication can provide ubiquitous communication for future wireless networks. In the case of concurrent transmission of multiple UAVs, the directional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weihao Wang , Zesong Fei , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks to provide coverage for outdoor users has attracted great attention during the last decade. However, outdoor coverage is challenging due to the high mobility of crowds and the diverse terrain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zhengying Lou , Ruibo Wang , Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communications have been proposed as a critical part of the beyond fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. This type of communications is frequently characterized by line-of-sight (LoS) and dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Petros S. Bithas , Viktor Nikolaidis , Athanasios G. Kanatas , George K. Karagiannidis

Providing reliable connectivity to cellular-connected UAV can be very challenging; their performance highly depends on the nature of the surrounding environment, such as density and heights of the ground BSs. On the other hand, tall…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Erika Fonseca , Boris Galkin , Ramy Amer , Luiz A. DaSilva , Ivana Dusparic

We use a simple yet Earth-like atmospheric model to propose a new framework for understanding the mathematics of blocking events. Analysing error growth rates along a very long model trajectory, we show that blockings are associated with…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Valerio Lucarini , Andrey Gritsun

Accurate Probability of Line-of-Sight (PLoS) modeling is important in evaluating the performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based communication systems in urban environments, where real-time communication and low latency are often…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Abdul Saboor , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-to-ground (U2G) channel models play a pivotal role for reliable communications between UAV and ground terminal. This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) non-stationary hybrid model including both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Boyu Hua , Haoran Ni , Qiuming Zhu , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tongtong Zhou , Kai Mao , Junwei Bao , Xiaofei Zhang

One of the most promising solutions to the problem of limited flight time of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is providing the UAVs with power through laser beams emitted from Laser Beam Directors (LBDs) deployed on the ground. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Millimeter wave (mmWave)-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is a promising candidate for future communications due to its flexibility and sufficient bandwidth. However, random fluctuations in the position of hovering UAVs…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-13 Cunyan Ma , Xiaoya Li , Chen He , Jinye Peng , Z. Jane Wang

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serving as Aerial Base Stations (ABSs) are expected to extend 6G millimeter-Wave (mmWave) coverage and improve link reliability in urban areas. However, UAV-based Air-to-Ground (A2G) channels are highly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Abdul Saboor , Evgenii Vinogradov

The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian applications, which call for high-performance communication between UAVs and their ground clients, especially when they are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless mesh networks can economically provide wireless services for the areas with disasters. However, the capacity of air-to-air communications is limited due to the multi-hop transmissions. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Zijun Guo , Zhiyong Feng , Jialin Zhu , Caijun Zhong , Qihui Wu , Huici Wu

While the wireless word moves towards higher frequency bands, new challenges arises, due to the inherent characteristics of the transmission links, such as high path and penetration losses. Penetration losses causes blockages that in turn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Evangelos Koutsonas , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Stylianos E. Trevlakis , Tanweer Ali , Theodoros A. Tsiftis

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has the advantages of large coverage and flexibility, which could be applied in disaster management to provide wireless services to the rescuers and victims. When UAVs forms an aerial mesh network,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Jialin Zhu , Zijun Guo , Fan Ning

In this paper, we provide the model of the multilayer aerial network (MAN), composed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that distributed in Poisson point process (PPP) with different densities, heights, and transmission power. In our model, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-18 Dongsun Kim , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek

The emerging low-altitude economy has catalyzed the large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), driving a paradigm shift in environment monitoring, logistics, and emergency response. However, operating within these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianhao Liang , Nanchi Su , Yuqi Ping , Guangyu Lei , Xinglin Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek