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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridors are sky lanes where UAVs fly through safely between their origin and destination. To ensure the successful operation of UAV corridors, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) wireless connectivity within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Sung Joon Maeng , İsmail Güvenç

This paper investigates ground-aerial uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) cellular networks. A rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) user and multiple ground users (GUEs) are served by ground base stations (GBSs) by utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin

Unmanned aerial vehicle-aided communication (UAB-BS) is a promising solution to establish rapid wireless connectivity in sudden/temporary crowded events because of its more flexibility and mobility features than conventional ground base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Bhola , Ang-Hsun Tsai , Li-Chun Wang

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Wireless communication highly depends on the cellular ground base station (GBS). A failure of the cellular GBS, fully or partially, during natural or man-made disasters creates a communication gap in the disaster-affected areas. In such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Naveed Khan , Ayaz Ahmad , Abdul Wakeel , Zeeshan Kaleem , Bushra Rashid , Waqas Khalid

This paper considers an uplink cellular system, in which each base station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas to serve multiple single-antenna user equipments (UEs) simultaneously. Uplink training with pilot reusing is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Liang , Wenyi zhang , Cong Shen

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Subin Eom , Hoon Lee , Junhee Park , Inkyu Lee

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper considers a multi-UAV enabled wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

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 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

In this article, we introduce a method to optimize 5G massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on aerial highways through strategic cell association. UAVs operating in 3D space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Matteo Bernabe , David Lopez-Perez , Nicola Piovesan , Giovanni Geraci , David Gesbert

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is an enabling technology to transmit control signaling or payload data for UAVs through cellular networks. Due to the line-of-sight (LoS) dominant air-to-ground channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Tianshi Ren , Xianchao Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Xiaozheng Gao , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we jointly consider the downlink simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) and uplink information transmission in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks, in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

For a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless communication system, imagining that the locations of the users are now fully controllable, what is the maximum sum-capacity, and what are the corresponding optimal user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yong Zeng

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

In conventional terrestrial cellular networks, mobile terminals (MTs) at the cell edge often pose a performance bottleneck due to their long distances from the serving ground base station (GBS), especially in hotspot period when the GBS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jiangbin Lyu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled two-user interference channel for wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), in which two UAVs wirelessly charge two low-power Internet-of-things (IoT)-devices on the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng

With the explosive growth of maritime activities, it is expected to provide seamless communications with quality of service (QoS) guarantee over broad sea area. In the context, this paper proposes a space-air-ground-sea integrated maritime…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhehan Zhou , Xiaoming Chen , Ming Ying , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Yunlong Cai , Zhaoyang Zhang

In the existing cellular networks, it remains a challenging problem to communicate with and control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm with both high reliability and low latency. Due to the UAV swarm's high working altitude and strong…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yitao Han , Liang Liu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang