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In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV aims at achieving a tradeoff between maximizing energy efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad , Christian Bettstetter

Spectrum sensing and the generation of 3D Radio Environment Maps (REMs) are essential for enabling spectrum sharing within cognitive radio networks. While Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer high-mobility 3D sensing, REM accuracy is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Mushfiqur Rahman , Sung Joon Maeng , Ismail Guvenc , Chau-Wai Wong , Mihail Sichitiu , Jason A. Abrahamson , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

The rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications imposes stringent requirements on continuous and reliable communication coverage in low-altitude airspace. Conventional cellular systems built upon fixed-position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Yujia Zhao , Dingyou Ma , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

In recent times, the use of stochastic geometry has become a popular and important tool for performance analysis of next-generation dense small cell wireless networks. Usually, such networks are modeled using 2 dimensional spatial Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Aritra Chatterjee , Suvra Sekhar Das

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to significantly contribute to the development of new wireless networks that could handle high-speed transmissions and enable wireless broadcasts. When compared to communications that rely on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Mohammed Abuzamak , Hisham Kholidy

When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over line-of-sight (LoS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Wenqian Huang , Dong Min Kim , Wenrui Ding , Petar Popovski

In the current unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for sensing services, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) transmit their sensory data to terrestrial mobile devices over the unlicensed spectrum. However, the interference from surrounding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 F. Wu , H. Zhang , J. Wu , L. Song

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

Low Probability of Detection (LPD) communication aims to obscure the presence of radio frequency (RF) signals to evade surveillance. In the context of mobile surveillance utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), achieving LPD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Sivaram Krishnan , Jihong Park , Gregory Sherman , Benjamin Campbell , Jinho Choi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is an enabling technology to transmit control signaling or payload data for UAVs through cellular networks. Due to the line-of-sight (LoS) dominant air-to-ground channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Tianshi Ren , Xianchao Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Xiaozheng Gao , Rui Zhang

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional (3D) communication coverage for the UAVs in the sky is a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the next decade. The effective support of such massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohammad Mozaffari , Xingqin Lin , Stephen Hayes

We present a novel and first-of-its-kind information-theoretic framework for the key design consideration and implementation of a ground-to-UAV (G2U) communication network to minimize end-to-end transmission delay in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sudhanshu Arya , Ying Wang

We consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). For this setup, we focus on analyzing and comparing the performance of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 M. Mahdi Azari , Giovanni Geraci , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Sofie Pollin

In order to bolster future wireless networks, there has been a great deal of interest in non-terrestrial networks, especially aerial platforms including high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Faical Khennoufa , Khelil Abdellatif , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Metin Ozturk , Taissir Elganimi , Ferdi Kara , Khaled Rabie

Most consumer-level low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have limited battery power and long charging time. Due to these energy constraints, they cannot accomplish many practical tasks, such as monitoring a sport or political event for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Jyh-Ming Lien , Sam Rodriguez , Marco Morales

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are playing an important role in various areas due to their agility and versatility, which have attracted significant attention from both the academia and industry in recent years. As an integration of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Haijun Wang , Haitao Zhao , Jiao Zhang , Dongtang Ma , Jiaxun Li , Jibo Wei

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been widely accepted as promising technologies to support air-to-ground communications in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This paper proposes a novel air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiao Fan , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various applications in practice, we provide a comprehensive survey on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Qingheng Song , Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Shi Jin