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Next-generation wireless networks will deploy UAVs dynamically as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) to boost the wireless network coverage in the out of reach areas. To provide an efficient service in stochastic environments, the optimal…

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In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are recognized as promising technologies for area coverage due to the flexibility and adaptability. However, the ability of a single UAV is limited, and as for the large-scale three-dimensional (3D) scenario,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Jia He , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Junyu Liu , Qihui Wu , Jingxian Liu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

In this paper, a novel machine learning (ML) framework is proposed for enabling a predictive, efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (BSs), to provide on-demand wireless service to cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Qianqian Zhang , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Low-altitude economy includes the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving ground robots. This paper investigates the 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory and communication optimization for low-altitude air-ground cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Menghao Hu , Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Chiya Zhang , Changyang She , Gaojie Chen , Miaowen Wen

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled relaying system where multiple UAVs are deployed as aerial relays to support simultaneous communications from a set of source nodes to their destination nodes on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are considered as a promising technique for next-generation communication networks due to their flexibility, mobility, low cost, and the ability to collaboratively and autonomously provide services.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yahao Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Quoc-Viet Pham , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a convenient choice for carrying mobile base stations to rapidly setup communication services for ground users. Unlike terrestrial networks, UAVs do not have fiber optic back-haul connectivity except when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

To reap the benefits of dense small base station (SBS) deployment, innovative backhaul solutions are needed in order to manage scenarios in which high-speed ground backhaul links are either unavailable or limited in capacity. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being successfully used to deliver communication services in applications such as extending the coverage of 5G cellular networks in remote areas, emergency situations, and enhancing the service quality in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless coverage to a geographical area, where a flying UAV can be fast deployed to serve as cell site. Existing work on UAV-enabled wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm systems necessitate efficient collaborative perception mechanisms for diverse operational scenarios. Current Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based approaches exhibit two main limitations: bounding-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zefu Lin , Wenbo Chen , Xiaojuan Jin , Yuran Yang , Lue Fan , Yixin Zhang , Yufeng Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng

Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yue Yu , Xiaobo Zheng , Shaoming He

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

A decentralized swarm approach for the fast cooperative flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in feature-poor environments without any external localization and communication is introduced in this paper. A novel model of a UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jiri Horyna , Vit Kratky , Vaclav Pritzl , Tomas Baca , Eliseo Ferrante , Martin Saska

This study considers a UAV-assisted multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) systems, where a decode-and-forward (DF) relay in the form of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) facilitates the transmission of multiple data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Mobeen Mahmood , MohammadMahdi Ghadaksaz , Asil Koc , Tho Le-Ngoc