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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

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

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 ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled positioning that uses UAVs as aerial anchor nodes is a promising solution for providing positioning services in harsh environments. In previous research, the state sensing and control of UAVs were…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Zijie Wang , Rongke Liu , Qirui Liu , Lincong Han

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be widely deployed in future wireless communications, due to their advantages of high mobility and easy deployment. However, the broadcast nature of air-to-ground line-of-sight wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

Efficient localization plays a vital role in many modern applications of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) and Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which would contribute to improved control, safety, power economy, etc. The ubiquitous 5G NR (New…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Meisam Kabiri , Claudio Cimarelli , Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Holger Voos

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential for improving the performance of wireless communication systems due to their wide coverage and high mobility. In this paper, we study a UAV-enabled data collection system, where a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dingcheng Yang , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a position estimation problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with both proprioceptive sensors, i.e. IMU, and exteroceptive sensors, i.e. GPS and a barometer. We propose a data-driven position…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Shenglun Yi , Xuebo Jin , Zhengjie Wang , Zhijun Liu , Mattia Zorzi

The accuracy of indoor wireless localization systems can be substantially enhanced by map-awareness, i.e., by the knowledge of the map of the environment in which localization signals are acquired. In fact, this knowledge can be exploited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) are rapidly expanding with the growing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for logistics, surveillance, and emergency response. Reliable connectivity remains a critical yet challenging task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nguyen Duc Minh Quang , Chang Liu , Huy-Trung Nguyen , Shuangyang Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wei Xiang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to enable wireless communications. Due to their characteristics, such as the ability to hover and carry cargo, UAVs can serve as communications nodes, including Wi-Fi Access Points and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

This paper addresses a novel multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)-based positioning algorithm for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) collaboration (i.e., UAVs work as mobile base stations). The primary objective of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Chanyoung Park , Soohyun Park , Soyi Jung , Carlos Cordeiro , Joongheon Kim

The expansion of the low-altitude economy is contingent on reliable cellular connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A key challenge in pre-flight planning is predicting communication link quality along proposed and pre-defined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Wenlihan Lu , Huacong Chen , Ruiyang Duan , Weijie Yuan , Shijian Gao

We consider device-to-device (D2D) wireless information and power transfer systems using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a relay-assisted node. As the energy capacity and flight time of UAVs is limited, a significant issue in deploying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Minh-Nghia Nguyen , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan

In wireless location-aware networks, mobile nodes (agents) typically obtain their positions through ranging with respect to nodes with known positions (anchors). Transmit power allocation not only affects network lifetime, throughput, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 William Wei-Liang Li , Yuan Shen , Ying Jun , Zhang , Moe Z. Win

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks and Internet of Things (IoT) are being considered as integral components of current and next-generation wireless networks. In particular, UAVs can provide IoT devices with seamless connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of scenarios and applications. However, their deployment in urban areas poses important technical challenges. One of the most prominent concerns is the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Zoheb Shaikh , Sabur Baidya , Marco Levorato

Radio map describes network coverage and is a practically important tool for network planning in modern wireless systems. Generally, radio strength measurements are collected to construct fine-resolution radio maps for analysis. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Songyang Zhang , Tianhang Yu , Jonathan Tivald , Brian Choi , Feng Ouyang , Zhi Ding