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This paper studies a new mobile edge computing (MEC) setup where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is served by cellular ground base stations (GBSs) for computation offloading. The UAV flies between a give pair of initial and final…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been extensively applied to Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network (MUN) to effectively enable real-time adaptation to complex, time-varying environments. Nevertheless, most of the existing works…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Bowei Li , Yang Xu , Ran Zhang , Jiang , Xie , Miao Wang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is viewed as an integral part of future wireless networks to support new applications with stringent service reliability and latency requirements. However, guaranteeing ultra-reliable and low-latency MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Arian Ahmadi , Omid Semiari , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where pursuers aim to capture evaders, poses a key challenge for UAV swarm intelligence. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has demonstrated potential in modeling cooperative behaviors, but most RL-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiayu Chen , Chao Yu , Guosheng Li , Wenhao Tang , Shilong Ji , Xinyi Yang , Botian Xu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

User association, the problem of assigning each user device to a suitable base station, is increasingly crucial as wireless networks become denser and serve more users with diverse service demands. The joint optimization of user association…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Jonggyu Jang , Hyeonsu Lyu , David J. Love , Hyun Jong Yang

The integration of emerging uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) with artificial intelligence (AI) and ground-embedded robots (GERs) has transformed emergency rescue operations in unknown environments. However, the high computational demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xin Tang , Qian Chen , Wenjie Weng , Chao Jin , Zhang Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Geng Sun , Xiaohuan Li , Dusit Niyato

This paper investigates a multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) joint base station-assisted Internet of Vehicles (IoV) task offloading system in dense urban environments. To minimize system delay and energy consumption under strict coupling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Cui Zhang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

Management and mission planning over a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remains to date as a challenging research trend in what regards to this particular type of aircrafts. These vehicles are controlled by a number of ground control…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , Javier Del Ser , David Camacho

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions the widespread use of small aerial vehicles to transform transportation in dense urban environments. However, UAM faces critical operational challenges, particularly the balance between minimizing noise…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Surya Murthy , Zhenyu Gao , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for multicarrier (MC) systems employing a solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for providing communication services to multiple downlink users. We study the joint design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dongfang Xu , Linglong Dai , Robert Schober

The intelligent reflection surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is widely used in temporary and emergency scenarios. Our goal is to minimize the energy consumption of the MEC system by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Dong , Feibo Jiang , Minjie Wang , Yubo Peng , Xiaolong Li

A Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) scheme with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is proposed in this paper. Unlike existing MEC-WPT schemes that disregard the downlink period for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Xiaoyan Hu , Pengle Wen , Han Xiao , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which a multi-antenna hybrid access point (AP) wirelessly charges multiple users, and each user relies on the harvested energy to execute computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Feng Wang , Hong Xing , Jie Xu

This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for joint communication and radar sensing system on rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. UAV simultaneously communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yuwei Li , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Meihui Hua , Shaoshuai Fan

Unmanned aerial vehicles serving as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to ground devices in events of increased network demand, points-of-failure in existing infrastructure, or disasters.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

In ultra-dense millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, mmWave signals suffer from severe path losses and are easily blocked by obstacles. Meanwhile, ultra-dense deployment causes excessive handovers, which reduces the data link reliability. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Ailing Chen , Shengchang Li , Jichen Xiong , Kezhong Jin , Zhenzhou Tang

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled emergency communication system, which establishes temporary communication link with users equipment (UEs) in a typical disaster environment with mountainous forest and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hongying Guo , Li Wang , Ruoguang Li , Luyang Hou , Lianming Xu , Aiguo Fei

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted a surge of research interest in both academia and industry. To support aerial user equipment (UEs) in the existing cellular networks, one promising approach is to assign a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xuesong Cai , István Z. Kovács , Jeroen Wigard , Rafhael Amorim , Fredrik Tufvesson , Preben E. Mogensen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being utilized for a wide spectrum of applications in wireless networks leading to attractive business opportunities. In the case of abrupt disruption to existing cellular network operation or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Sanaa Sharafeddine , Rania Islambouli