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Cellular network-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experience different radio propagation conditions than radio nodes on the ground. Therefore, it has become critical to investigate the performance of aerial radios, both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Andrew Yingst , Keith Powell , Antoni Gelonch-Bosch , Vuk Marojevic

Wireless Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were introduced in the world of 4th generation networks (4G) as cellular users, and have attracted the interest of the wireless community ever since. In~5G, UAVs operate also as flying Base Stations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-07 John Buczek , Lorenzo Bertizzolo , Stefano Basagni , Tommaso Melodia

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role in future wireless networks, either as aerial base stations (BSs) or aerial users connected to the cellular network. In addition, integrated sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuxuan Song , Yong Zeng , Yuhang Yang , Zixiang Ren , Gaoyuan Cheng , Xiaoli Xu , Jie Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly important role in military, public, and civilian applications, where providing connectivity to UAVs is crucial for its real-time control, video streaming, and data collection. Considering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Hui Zhou , Fenghe Hu , Michal Juras , Asish B Mehta , Yansha Deng

By using wireless connectivity through cellular base stations (BSs), swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide a plethora of services ranging from delivery of goods to surveillance. In particular, UAVs in a swarm can utilize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 Tengchan Zeng , Mohammad Mozaffari , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

To support large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, cellular-connected UAV, has recently received an upsurge of interests in both academia and industry.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for UAV. However, the communication capacity is becoming a bottleneck…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Zhenyu Xiao , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Pengfei Yi , Rui Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Robert Schober

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

Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important component of the upcoming wireless networks that can potentially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Bin Li , Zesong Fei , Yan Zhang

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

Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both UAVs and existing terrestrial users. In this paper, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and sharing a large number of realistic case studies supported by…

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

Thanks to the rapidly developing technology, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are able to complete a number of tasks in cooperation with each other without need for human intervention. In recent years, UAVs, which are widely utilized in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ozlem Ceviz , Sevil Sen , Pinar Sadioglu

Wireless communication networks have been witnessing an unprecedented demand due to the increasing number of connected devices and emerging bandwidth-hungry applications. Albeit many competent technologies for capacity enhancement purposes,…

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

Wireless access points on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being considered for mobile service provisioning in commercial networks. To be able to efficiently use these devices in cellular networks it is necessary to first have a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Boris Galkin , Jacek Kibiłda , Luiz A. DaSilva

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is becoming more prevalent and more diverse in its application. 5G and beyond networks must enable UAV connectivity. This will require the network operator to consider this new type of user in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Erika Fonseca , Boris Galkin , Marvin Kelly , Luiz A. DaSilva , Ivana Dusparic

Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

The market size of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, a.k.a drones) can reach up to 10% of the global market value. In particular, drone delivery is one of the most attractive applications. The growing number of drones requires appropriate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Achiel Colpaert , Michaël Raes , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin