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The usage of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in conjunction with Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) is being investigated as a way to provide energy-efficient communication to ground users in dense urban areas. In this paper, we…

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication platforms is of great practical significance in future wireless networks, especially for on-demand deployment in temporary events and emergency situations. Although prior works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Laser power has become a viable solution to provide convenient and sustainable energy supply to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, we study a laser-powered UAV wireless communication system, where a laser transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Jie Ouyang , Yueling Che , Jie Xu , Kaishun Wu

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

In this paper, we study the trajectory and resource allocation design for downlink energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems, where an information UAV assisted by a multi-antenna jammer UAV serves multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication scenario that a cluster of UAVs performs a virtual non-uniform linear array (NULA) to communicate with a base station (BS) in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Wei Zhang

In this paper we study the impact of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) trajectories on terrestrial users' spectral efficiency (SE). Assuming a strong line of sight path to the users, the distance from all users to all UAVs influence the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Stefan Roth , Ali Kariminezhad , Aydin Sezgin

This paper addresses the challenge of energy-constrained maritime monitoring networks by proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing, communication, powering and backhaul transmission scheme with a tailored…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Yujun Liang , Qian Li , Haochen Liu , Yaoyuan Zhang , Junsheng Mu , Shahid Mumtaz , Sheng Chen

As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as national legislations allow UAVs to fly autonomously, we will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Debashisha Mishra , Enrico Natalizio

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

This paper addresses the problem of trajectory optimization for an unmanned surface vehicle while considering direction-dependent ocean currents and flexible refueling constraints. This work is motivated by the rising interest in developing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Aaron Kandel , Chu Xu , David Cardona , Carey Whitehair

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially fixed-wing ones that withstand strong winds, have great potential for oceanic exploration and research. This paper studies a UAV-aided maritime data collection system with a fixed-wing UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yifan Zhang , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by the military, commercial companies, and academia continues to push research for autonomous vehicle navigation, particularly in varying environmental conditions and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Kenan Cole , Adam M. Wickenheiser

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access to terrestrial users, regardless of geographical constraints, and will be an important part of future communication systems. In this paper, a multi-user downlink dual-UAVs enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers an emerging cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) architecture for surveillance or monitoring applications. We consider a scenario where a cellular-connected aerial user equipment (AUE) periodically transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Nilupuli Senadhira , Salman Durrani , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Ming Ding

Generating locally optimal UAV-trajectories is challenging due to the non-convex constraints of collision avoidance and actuation limits. We present the first local, optimization-based UAV-trajectory generator that simultaneously guarantees…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ruiqi Ni , Teseo Schneider , Daniele Panozzo , Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao

We study dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) jamming-aided secure communication networks, in which one UAV delivers confidential data to multiple ground users (GUs), while a cooperative UAV provides protective interference against a ground…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Xinran Wang , Peng Wu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

This work studies the joint problem of power and trajectory optimization in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile relaying system. In the considered system, in order to provide convenient and sustainable energy supply to the UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingjiang Shi , Min-Jian Zhao

Next-generation mobile networks have proposed the integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (UAV-BS) to serve ground nodes. Despite having advantages of using UAV-BSs, their dependence on the on-board,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Ayub Bokani , Jahan Hassan , Shavbo Salehi , Salil S. Kanhere

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is anticipated to be widely applied in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, due to its many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang