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In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted wireless data aggregation (WDA) in multicluster networks, where multiple UAVs simultaneously perform different WDA tasks via over-the-air computation (AirComp) without…

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance in realizing heterogeneous practical wireless application scenarios. However, the densely populated users and diverse services with high data rate demands has triggered an…

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This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a UAV is dispatched as a mobile access point (AP) to serve a set of ground users periodically. The UAV employs the radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled radio access network (RAN) with the UAV acting as an aerial platform to communicate with a set of ground users (GUs) in a variety of modes of practical interest, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising for providing communication services due to their advantages in cost and mobility, especially in the context of the emerging Metaverse and Internet of Things (IoT). This paper considers a…

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Effective communication for emergency vehicles - such as ambulances and fire trucks - is essential to support their operations in various traffic and environmental conditions. In this context, this paper investigates a vehicular…

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In this paper, the problem of proactive deployment of cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for optimizing the quality-of-experience (QoE) of wireless devices in a cloud radio access network (CRAN) is studied. In the considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mingzhe Chen , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin , Mérouane Debbah , Choong-Seon Hong

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention due to its flexible deployment and controllable mobility. As the general communication network cannot meet the emergency requirements, in this paper we study the multi-UAV…

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Recently, movable antennas (MAs) have garnered immense attention due to their capability to favorably alter channel conditions through agile movement. In this letter, we delve into a spectrum sharing system enabled by unmanned aerial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Xiao-Wei Tang , Yunmei Shi , Yi Huang , Qingqing Wu

This paper investigates a new spectrum sharing scenario between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication systems. We consider that a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-15 Yuwei Huang , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection systems with different multiple access schemes, where a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to collect data from multiple ground nodes (GNs). Our goal is to maximize the…

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Recently, movable antenna (MA) array becomes a promising technology for improving the communication quality in wireless communication systems. In this letter, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled multi-user multi-input-single-output…

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing high data rates for next-generation communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Yuan-ai Xie , Yanyu Cheng , Jiawen Kang , Dong In Kim

Sensing-assisted predictive beamforming, as one of the enabling technologies for emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm, shows significant promise for enhancing various future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Hongxun Hui , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

In this paper, we investigate a private and cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network for content provision. Aiming at delivering fresh, fair, and energy-efficient content files to terrestrial users, we formulate a joint UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Peng Yang , Kun Guo , Xing Xi , Tony Q. S. Quek , Xianbin Cao , Chenxi Liu

Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Chunjie Wang , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Wireless communication enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as an appealing technology for many application scenarios in future wireless systems. However, the limited endurance of UAVs greatly hinders the practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Yong Liang Guan , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

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