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Cellular-connected UAV systems have enabled a wide range of low-altitude aerial services. However, these systems still face many challenges, such as frequent handovers and the inefficiency of traditional transport protocols. To better study…

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The usage of beamforming in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has the potential of significantly improving the air-to-ground link quality. This paper presents the outcome of experimental trial of such a UAV-based beamforming system over live…

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This paper proposes a novel mission planning platform, capable of efficiently deploying a team of UAVs to cover complex-shaped areas, in various remote sensing applications. Under the hood lies a novel optimization scheme for grid-based…

This paper investigates a new scenario of spectrum sharing between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication, in which a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary receiver (SR), in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

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The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)…

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In this paper, we study a cellular-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system consisting of one UAV and multiple ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV has a mission of flying from an initial location to a final location,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

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Cooperating small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will open up new application fields within next-generation Intelligent Transportation Sytems (ITSs), e.g., airborne near field delivery. In order to allow the exploitation of the…

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The recent progress in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has significantly advanced UAV-based applications for military, civil, and commercial domains. Nevertheless, the challenges of establishing high-speed communication links,…

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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)…

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In this paper, we consider a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with an information collection and transmission mission for multiple ground targets. Specifically, the UAV is required to collect a fixed amount of information of…

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5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) cellular networks are in the early phase of commercial deployments and present a unique opportunity for robust, high-data-rate communication to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A fundamental question is whether…

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To meet increasing data demands, service providers are considering the use of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for delivering connectivity as aerial base stations (BSs). UAVs are especially important to provide connectivity in case of…

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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…

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Using drones for communications and transportation is drawing great attention in many practical scenarios, such as package delivery and providing additional wireless coverage. However, the increasing demand for UAVs from industry and…

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This paper addresses the challenge of energy-constrained maritime monitoring networks by proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing, communication, powering and backhaul transmission scheme with a tailored…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Yujun Liang , Qian Li , Haochen Liu , Yaoyuan Zhang , Junsheng Mu , Shahid Mumtaz , Sheng Chen

With the upcoming trends in autonomous driving and urban air mobility, the number of self-navigating vehicles will increase, since they are foreseen for deliveries as well as autonomous taxis among other applications. To this end, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Nils L. Johannsen , Max Schurwanz , Lukas Grundmann , Jan Mietzner , Dirk Manteuffel , Peter A. Hoeher

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a major role in various civilian and commercial applications in the future. While existing cellular networks can provide wireless coverage to UAV user equipment (UE),…

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In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and localization network in emergency scenarios where a single UAV is deployed as both an airborne base station (BS) and anchor node to assist…

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