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In this paper, the effective use of flight-time constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations that can provide wireless service to ground users is investigated. In particular, a novel framework for optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the terrestrial cellular networks is envisioned as one key technology for next-generation wireless communications. In this work, we consider the physical layer security of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Sung Joon Maeng , Yavuz Yapıcı , İsmail Güvenç , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and ground stations. Key questions that need to be addressed when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Sofie Pollin

In this paper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs)-assisted visible light communication (VLC) has been considered which has two tiers: UAV-to-centroid and device-to-device (D2D). In the UAV-to-centroid tier, each UAV can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Alireza Qazavi , Foroogh S Tabataba , Mehdi Naderi Soorki

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance network coverage has proven a variety of benefits compared to terrestrial counterparts. One of the commonly used mathematical tools to model the locations of the UAVs is stochastic geometry…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication, utilizing beamforming techniques to address the inherent path loss limitation, is considered as one of the key technologies to support ever increasing high throughput and low latency demands of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

Air-to-ground (A2G) networks, using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations to serve terrestrial user equipments (UEs), are promising for extending the spatial coverage capability in future communication systems. Coordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yan Li , Deke Guo , Lailong Luo , Minghua Xia

Deploying Sub-6GHz networks together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising solution to achieve high data rates in traffic hotspots while guaranteeing sufficient coverage, where mmWave small cells are densely deployed to provide high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Minwei Shi , Kai Yang , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato

With growing interest in mmWave connectivity for UAVs, a basic question is whether networks intended for terrestrial users can provide sufficient aerial coverage as well. To assess this possibility, the paper proposes a novel evaluation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Seongjoon Kang , Marco Mezzavilla , Angel Lozano , Giovanni Geraci , William Xia , Sundeep Rangan , Vasilii Semkin , Giuseppe Loianno

In this paper, a novel communication framework that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflector (IR) is proposed to enhance multi-user downlink transmissions over millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology for providing wireless coverage to ground user devices. For all the infrastructure communication networks destroyed in disasters, UAVs battery life is challenging during service…

The use of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) as airborne base stations has recently gained great attention. In this paper, we model a network of UAV-BSs as a Poisson point process (PPP) operating at a certain altitude above…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Mohamed Alzenad , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

To meet increasing data demands, service providers are considering the use of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for delivering connectivity as aerial base stations (BSs). UAVs are especially important to provide connectivity in case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Nour Kouzayha , Hesham ElSawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Khlood Alshaikh , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Low-altitude wireless networks are increasingly vital for the low-altitude economy, enabling wireless coverage in high-mobility and hard-to-reach environments. However, providing reliable connectivity to sparsely distributed aerial users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tian Shi , Wenkun Wen , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and localization network in emergency scenarios where a single UAV is deployed as both an airborne base station (BS) and anchor node to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Suzhi Bi , Jiaxing Yu , Zheyuan Yang , Xiaohui Lin , Yuan Wu

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication enables high data rates for cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). However, a robust beam management remains challenging due to significant path loss and the dynamic mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Vendi Ardianto Nugroho , Byung Moo Lee

In this paper, the problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployment, power allocation, and bandwidth allocation is investigated for a UAV-assisted wireless system operating at terahertz (THz) frequencies. In the studied model, one UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Luyao Xu , Ming Chen , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

A novel near-field integrated sensing and communications framework for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with high time efficiency is proposed. A ground base station (GBS) with large aperture size communicates with one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Jingjing Zhao , Songtao Xue , Kaiquan Cai , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yanbo Zhu
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