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The communication system is a critical part of the system design for the autonomous UAV. It has to address different considerations, including efficiency, reliability and mobility of the UAV. In addition, a multi-UAV system requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Liping Shi , Néstor J. Hernández Marcano , Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be used extensively in the near future in applications such as aerial surveillance, transportation, and disaster assistance. The conditions under which UAVs operate are different from those of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-29 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to provide wireless coverage during emergency cases where each UAV serves as an aerial wireless base station when the cellular network goes down. They can also be used to supplement the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

This paper investigates a new scenario of spectrum sharing between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication, in which a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary receiver (SR), in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) consists of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its controller which use radios to communicate. While the remote controller (RC) is traditionally operated by a person who is maintaining visual line of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Providing seamless connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle user equipments (UAV-UEs) is very challenging due to the encountered line-of-sight interference and reduced gains of down-tilted base station (BS) antennas. For instance, as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Boris Galkin , Nicola Marchetti

This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Maede Zolanvari , Raj Jain , Tara Salman

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be users that support new applications, or be communication access points that serve terrestrial and/or aerial users. In this paper, we focus on the connectivity problem of aerial users when they are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Nesrine Cherif , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

Service providers are considering the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance wireless connectivity of cellular networks. To provide connectivity, UAVs have to be backhauled through terrestrial base stations (BSs) to the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Nour Kouzayha , Hesham ElSawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Khlod Alshaikh , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-satellite communication has drawn dramatic attention for its potential to build the integrated space-air-ground network and the seamless wide-area coverage. The key challenge to UAV-satellite communication is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jianwei Zhao , Feifei Gao , Qihui Wu , Shi Jin , Yi Wu , Weimin Jia

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), as a recently emerging technology, enabled a new breed of unprecedented applications in different domains. This technology's ongoing trend is departing from large remotely-controlled drones to networks of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Arnau Rovira-Sugranes , Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jacob Chakareski

Modern day wireless networks have tremendously evolved driven by a sharp increase in user demands, continuously requesting more data and services. This puts significant strain on infrastructure based macro cellular networks due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vishal Sharma , Mehdi Bennis , Rajesh Kumar

The recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have further extended Internet of Things (IoT) from the sole "things" aspect to the omnipotent role of "intelligent connection of things". Meanwhile, the concept of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yalin Liu , Hong-Ning Dai , Qubeijian Wang , Mahendra K. Shukla , Muhammad Imran

In this paper, we consider an Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over cellular networks, where UAVs work as aerial users to collect various sensory data, and send the collected data to their transmission destinations over cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are indispensable for infrastructure inspection, surveillance, and related tasks, yet they also introduce critical security challenges. This survey provides a wide-ranging examination of the anti-UAV domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Sanjian Zhang , Guangyu Chen , Yuzhi Hu , Masumi Yano , Jingdong Sun , Siyu Huang , Feng Liu , Qi Dai , Zhi-Qi Cheng

For unforeseen emergencies, such as natural disasters and pandemic events, it is highly demanded to cope with the explosive growth of mobile data traffic in extremely critical environments. An Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet is an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhuohui Yao , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Tao Zhang , Hailin Zhang

The rapid growth of UAV applications necessitates a robust communication and networking architecture capable of addressing the diverse requirements of various applications concurrently, rather than relying on application-specific solutions.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Sanku Kumar Roy , Mohamed Samshad , Ketan Rajawat

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Matthias R. Brust , Bogdan M. Strimbu

The growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from both scientific and industrial sectors has attracted a wave of new researchers and substantial investments in this expansive field. However, due to the wide range of topics and…

Future wireless networks are envisioned to support both sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) services. However, conventional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks may not be suitable due to the ignorance of diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenhao Zhuang , Xinyu He , Yuyi Mao , Juan Liu