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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

We consider a fully-loaded ground wireless network supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) transmission services. To enable the overload transmissions to a ground user (GU) and a UAV, two transmission schemes are employed, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yulin Hu , Guodong Sun , Guohua Zhang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Anke Schmeink

This letter advances the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique for cellular downlink co-channel interference mitigation, via exploiting the (limited) cooperation among base stations (BSs). Specifically, we consider a simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

This article investigates the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks. By utilizing a stochastic geometry model, a new 3-Dimension UAV framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen

Introducing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based communication network is a promising solution to enhance its spectral efficiency. However, for realistic deployment of such a network,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Yuichi Kakishima

In this paper, we consider a relay-assisted uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. In this system, two radio frequency (RF) users are grouped for simultaneous transmissions, over each resource block, to an intermediate relay.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

In this paper, we consider a single-cell cellular network with a number of cellular users (CUs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in which multiple UAVs upload their collected data to the base station (BS). Two transmission modes are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a significant role in fifth generation (5G) networks, addressing spectrum scarcity in UAV communications remains a pressing issue. In this regard, the feasibility of full-duplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Tan Zheng Hui Ernest , A S Madhukumar , Rajendra Prasad Sirigina , Anoop Kumar Krishna

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

With the rapid development of aerial infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that function as aerial base stations (ABSs) extend terrestrial network services into the sky, enabling on-demand connectivity and enhancing emergency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Enzhi Zhou , Yue Xiao , Ziyue Liu , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

UAVs are capable of improving the performance of next generation wireless systems. Specifically, UAVs can be exploited as aerial base-stations (UAV-BS) for supporting legitimate ground users in remote uncovered areas or in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hamed Bastami , Hamid Behroozi , Majid Moradikia , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ngand , Lajos Hanzo

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) as well as other orthogonal multiple access techniques fail to achieve the system capacity limit in the uplink due to the exclusivity in resource allocation. This issue is more prominent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Mohammed Al-Imari , Pei Xiao , Muhammad Ali Imran , Rahim Tafazolli

With growing interest in integrating terrestrial networks (TNs) and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) to connect the unconnected, a key question is whether this new paradigm could also be opportunistically exploited to augment service in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Mohamed Benzaghta , Giovanni Geraci , Rasoul Nikbakht , David Lopez-Perez

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be used extensively in the future for various applications, either as user equipment (UEs) connected to a cellular wireless network, or as an infrastructure extension of an existing wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Sung Joon Maeng , Jaehyun Park , Ismail Guvenc

With the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks being actively standardized and deployed, many new vehicular communications technologies are developed to support and enrich various application scenarios. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong

A main challenge in providing connectivity to the low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through existing cellular network arises due to the increased interference in the network. The increased altitude and favourable propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Y. -P. Eric Wang , Shiwei Gao , Siva Muruganathan , Xingqin Lin

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is envisioned to be one of the most beneficial technologies for next generation wireless networks due to its enhanced performance compared to other conventional radio access techniques. Although the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Rukhsana Ruby , Shuxin Zhong , Hailiang Yang , Kaishun Wu

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle enabled-up link non-orthogonal multiple-access system, where multiple mobile users on the ground send independent messages to a unmanned aerial vehicle in the sky via non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yuwei Huang , Xiaopeng Mo , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Yong Zeng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-based applications, such as surveillance systems and wireless relays, are attracting increasing attention from academia and industrial fields. The high-performance aerial communication system is one of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Tao Yu , Kento Kajiwara , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

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