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Unmanned aerial vehicles serving as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to ground devices in events of increased network demand, points-of-failure in existing infrastructure, or disasters.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to assist terrestrial infrastructure for keeping wireless connectivity in various emergency scenarios. To maximize the coverage rate of N ground users (GUs) by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jin Qiu , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

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

Effective solutions for intelligent data collection in terrestrial cellular networks are crucial, especially in the context of Internet of Things applications. The limited spectrum and coverage area of terrestrial base stations pose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Abhishek Mondal , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , George C. Alexandropoulos , Azzam Alnahari , Riku Jantti

In this paper, the optimal deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations is investigated. Considering the downlink scenario, the goal is to minimize the total required transmit power of UAVs while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Augmenting wireless networks with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, offers a promising avenue for providing reliable, cost-effective, and on-demand wireless services to desired areas. However, existing UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Aksh Garg

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji

Due to its agile maneuverability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great promise for ondemand communications. In practice, UAV-aided aerial base stations are not separate. Instead, they rely on existing satellites/terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xiangling Li , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Ning Ge

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) are expected to become one of the significant components of the Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWNs). Rapid deployment, mobility, higher chances of unobstructed propagation path,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Cihan Tugrul Cicek , Hakan Gultekin , Bulent Tavli , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Networks is a promising solution to providing wireless coverage to ground users in challenging rural areas (such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices in farmlands), where the traditional cellular networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Javad Sabzehali , Vijay K. Shah , Qiang Fan , Biplav Choudhury , Lingjia Liu , Jeffrey H. Reed

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention due to its flexible deployment and controllable mobility. As the general communication network cannot meet the emergency requirements, in this paper we study the multi-UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yixin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can enhance the performance of cellular networks, due to their high mobility and efficient deployment. In this paper, we present a first study on how the user mobility affects the UAVs' trajectories of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yao Tang , Man Hon Cheung , Tat-Ming Lok

Modern communication systems need to fulfill multiple and often conflicting objectives at the same time. In particular, new applications require high reliability while operating at low transmit powers. Moreover, reliability constraints may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

Aerial base stations (ABSs) mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of extending wireless connectivity to ground users (GUs) across a variety of scenarios. However, it is an NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yiling Wang , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

This study investigates the integration of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform to utilize the advantages of these leading technologies for sixth-generation communications, e.g., improved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Hung Nguyen-Kha , Hieu V. Nguyen , Mai T. P. Le , Oh-Soon Shin

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communications systems have attracted increasing research and commercial interest due to their cost effective deployment and ease of mobility.During natural disasters and emergencies, such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sai Teja Suggala , Siddhartha Pothukuchi , Naimat Ali Khan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key question is how to adapt UAV deployment to best cater to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhe Wang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , M. Mahdi Azari , William Melek , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti