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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as relay platforms to assist maritime wireless communications. However, complex channels and multipath effects at sea can adversely affect the quality of UAV transmitted signals. Collaborative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jiawei Huang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have brought a lot of flexibility in the network deployment. However, UAVs suffer from the high mobility and instability. To improve the capacity and reliability of the UAV networks, millimeter-wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Lisi Jiang , Hamid Jafarkhani

Cellular networks are expected to be the main communication infrastructure to support the expanding applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). As these networks are deployed to serve ground User Equipment (UES), several issues need to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-05 H. Hellaoui , M. Bagaa , A. Chelli , T. Taleb

In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided simultaneous uplink and downlink transmission networks, where one UAV acting as a disseminator is connected to multiple access points, and the other UAV acting as a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The beamforming techniques have been recently studied as possible enablers for underlay spectrum sharing. The existing beamforming techniques have several common limitations: they are usually system model specific, cannot operate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Daniel Denkovski , Valentin Rakovic , Vladimir Atanasovski , Liljana Gavrilovska , Petri Mähönen

This paper investigates the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to assist covert communication between a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a ground user under the surveillance of a passive warden. The UAV simultaneously serves its own…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hung D. Nguyen , Jeongseok Ha

In this paper, we characterize the performance of a three-dimensional (3D) two-hop cellular network in which terrestrial base stations (BSs) coexist with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to serve a set of ground user equipment (UE). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Morteza Banagar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is regarded as a key enabling platform for low-altitude economy, due to its advantages such as 3D maneuverability, flexible deployment, and LoS air-to-air/ground communication links. In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Bin Li , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a wireless network consisting of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base station (BS), a fully-connected reconfigurable intelligent surface (FC-RIS), and multiple users, where the downlink signal can simultaneously be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Shuying Lin , Yulong Zou , Yuhan Jiang , Libao Yang , Zhe Cui , Le-Nam Tran

The recent evolution of ambient backscattering technology has the potential to provide long-range and low-power wireless communications. In this work, we study the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted backscatter networks where the UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The rapid growth of consumer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to cellular networks as new types of user equipment, therefore…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Azade Fotouhi , Haoran Qiang , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Jinhong Yuan

Communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in current terrestrial networks suffers from poor signal strength due to the down-tilt of the access points (APs) that are optimized to serve ground users ends (GUEs). To solve this, one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

The usage of beamforming in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has the potential of significantly improving the air-to-ground link quality. This paper presents the outcome of experimental trial of such a UAV-based beamforming system over live…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Tomasz Izydorczyk , Michel Massanet Ginard , Simon Svendsen , Gilberto Berardinelli , Preben Mogensen

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with on-board base station equipment can potentially provide connectivity in areas where the terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. Use cases comprise emergency response,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Daniel Romero , Geert Leus

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into future wireless systems such as the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network is anticipated to bring significant benefits for both UAV and telecommunication industries. Generally speaking, UAVs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Qingqing Wu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications are expected to alleviate the load of ground base stations in a cost-effective way. Existing studies mainly focus on the deployment and resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zhaolong Ning , Hao Hu , Xiaojie Wang , Qingqing Wu , Chau Yuen , F. Richard Yu , Yan Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are a promising technology for fast, large scale survey operations such as maritime search and rescue (SAR). However, providing reliable communications over long distances remains a challenge. Cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Philipp Gorczak , Caner Bektas , Fabian Kurtz , Thomas Lübcke , Christian Wietfeld

This paper studies the deployment of multiple movable antennas (MAs) at the base station (BS) for enhancing the multiuser communication performance. First, we model the multiuser channel in the uplink to characterize the wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

This paper considers an emerging cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) architecture for surveillance or monitoring applications. We consider a scenario where a cellular-connected aerial user equipment (AUE) periodically transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Nilupuli Senadhira , Salman Durrani , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Ming Ding