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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) are attaining more and more maneuverability and sensory ability as a promising teleoperation platform for intelligent interaction with the environments. This work presents a novel 5-degree-of-freedom (DoF)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Caiwu Ding , Hongwu Peng , Lu Lu , Caiwen Ding

Up until now, path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has mainly been focused on the optimisation towards energy efficiency. However, to operate UAVs safely, wireless coverage is of utmost importance. Currently, deployed cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Sibren De Bast , Evgenii Vingradov , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used in the context of remote sensing missions such as target search and tracking, mapping, or surveillance monitoring. In the first part of our paper we consider agent dynamics,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Richard Carney , Monique Chyba , Chris Gray , Corey Shanbrom , George Wilkens

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

The recent evolution of ambient backscattering technology has the potential to provide long-range and low-power wireless communications. In this work, we study the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted backscatter networks where the UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In disaster scenarios, establishing robust emergency communication networks is critical, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution to rapidly restore connectivity. However, organizing UAVs to form multi-hop networks in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yanggang Xu , Jirong Zha , Weijie Hong , Xiangmin Yi , Geng Chen , Jianfeng Zheng , Chen-Chun Hsia , Xinlei Chen

Cellular networks are promising to support effective wireless communications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will help to enable various long-range UAV applications. However, these networks are optimized for terrestrial users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Yang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Lataief

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

The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, flexibility, and adaptive altitude, UAVs admit several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Han Nam , Merouane Debbah

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide wireless data access for ground users in various applications (e.g., in emergence situations). This paper considers a UAV-enabled wireless network, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Peiming Li , Jie Xu

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have greatly revolutionized the process of gathering and analyzing data in diverse research domains, providing unmatched adaptability and effectiveness. This paper presents a thorough examination of Unmanned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Md. Mahfuzur Rahman , Sunzida Siddique , Marufa Kamal , Rakib Hossain Rifat , Kishor Datta Gupta

We investigate the performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks in urban environments characterized by blockages, focusing on their capability to support the service demands of mobile users. The UAV-base stations (UAV-BSs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Neetu R R , Gourab Ghatak , Vivek Ashok Bohara

This paper proposes an intelligent technique for maximizing the network connectivity and provisioning desired quality of service (QoS) of integration of internet of things (IoT) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Prediction of the signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-22 S. H. Alsamhi , Ou Ma , M. S. Ansari

This study proposes an approach for establishing an optimal multihop ad-hoc network using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide emergency communication in disaster areas. The approach includes two stages, one uses particle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ngan Duong Thi Thuy , Duy Nam Bui , Manh Duong Phung , Hung Pham Duy

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

This paper studies the optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement problem for wireless networking. The UAV operates as a flying wireless relay to provide coverage extension for a base station (BS) and deliver capacity boost to a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Junting Chen , David Gesbert

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of sensors via distributed beamforming. We consider the delay-sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

This paper studies the problem of spectrum shortage in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network during critical missions such as wildfire monitoring, search and rescue, and disaster monitoring. Such applications involve a high demand for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Sajad Mousavi , Jonathan Ashdown , Kurt Turk

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) mobility provides an ideal platform for implementing aerial movable antenna (AMA) system enabled by UAV swarm cooperation. Besides, AMA system is readily to achieve an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haiquan Lu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Long Shi , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang